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Yusuf SeedatYS

Yusuf Seedat

Development Lead

€525/day
Johannesburg, ZA
8-15 years
Java
Angular
DevOps
Amazon Web Services
Typescript

Average response time: 1 hour

About Yusuf

Technical leader and full-stack senior software engineer with a decade of experience delivering cloud-native systems across automotive, banking, and healthcare. Strong ownership of architecture, infrastructure, and the full SDLC, paired with a track record of mentoring teams and aligning engineering with
business goals. Currently pursuing an MBA at ESMT Berlin to deepen strategic and leadership capability alongside hands-on
delivery, driving engineering excellence from concept to deployment.
Automotive OEM
Health and Wellness
Banking and Financial Services

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Afrikaans

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Johannesburg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • BMW IT Hub ZA
    Full Stack Senior Software Engineer
    TECH
    June 2021 - June 2023 (2 years)
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    Senior engineer leading major cloud migration initiatives and core feature delivery across
    enterprise platforms used globally within BMW’s manufacturing divisions.
    • Developed scalable backend APIs and dynamic front-end features for factory management tools
    deployed across multiple global locations.
    • Successfully migrated monolithic architecture to microservices-based, containerized systems in
    Azure.
    • Upgraded Angular framework from version 5 to 14+, aligning the UI with BMW’s corporate design
    system and improving performance by over 30%.
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, automating build and deployment processes and
    reducing release times by 70%.
    • Provided production support for high-availability systems with minimal downtime SLAs.
    • Collaborated with cross-border teams across Europe, ensuring seamless integration and quality
    assurance.
    Tech Stack: Java, Angular, Azure, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Docker, Maven, Jenkins,
    Kibana
    Java Angular Amazon Web Services PostgreSQL Kubernetes
  • BMW IT Hub South Africa
    Development Lead
    TECH
    June 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    Promoted to lead a greenfield project within the BMW IT Hub, serving as the primary development lead for the South Africa region. Tasked with overseeing software delivery across the full SDLC, with strong ownership of architecture, infrastructure, and stakeholder engagement.
    • • Led the design and development of full stack software solutions using modern cloud-native technologies.
    • • Oversaw a full front-end redesign initiative, resulting in improved UI/UX and performance consistency.
    • • Introduced process optimizations through Agile best practices (e.g., retrospectives, sprint planning).
    • • Mentored engineers across all levels, conducted code reviews, and established team development standards.
    • • Acted as technical liaison for European stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable engineering tasks.
    • • Owned end-to-end release management and production support processes, ensuring system stability and responsiveness.
    • • Designed domain architecture and implemented observability using Grafana and Loki.
    • • Provisioned infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, streamlining onboarding and reducing setup time by 40%. Java, Quarkus, Angular, Kafka, Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Maven, Grafana, Loki
    Java Kubernetes DevOps MongoDB Quarkus
  • First National Bank South Africa
    Senior Software Engineer
    TECH
    January 2020 - May 2021 (1 year and 4 months)
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    Backend engineer on mission-critical banking systems, delivering RESTful APIs and production support services for internal business applications.
    • • Designed and implemented scalable Java-based REST APIs supporting millions of transactions monthly.
    • • Deployed microservices on OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters across multiple data centers.
    • • Monitored and triaged issues in the production environment, participating in regular postmortems.
    • • Played a key role in release planning and provided technical documentation for ongoing team onboarding.
    Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, OpenShift, Kubernetes, OracleDB, Cassandra, Docker, Maven.
    Java Kubernetes DevOps
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Education

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)
    ESMT Berlin
    2027
    Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • BSc Honours
    University of Johannesburg
    2020
    BSc Honours
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Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
    Amazon web services
    2025
    Amazon Web Services

Skill set

software architect

Categories

  • Other