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Emil Lourens
Development Team Lead
London
Summary
Experienced Development Team Lead adept at guiding teams to deliver cutting-edge software solutions. I bring a proven track record in optimizing processes, fostering innovation, and seamlessly integrating technologies. I excel in translating complex requirements into actionable plans, ensuring efficiency, and delivering scalable solutions, all while actively contributing to coding efforts.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certificates
3
3
Languages
Work History
Development Team Lead
Trayport
London
11.2022 - Current
- Determined and implemented innovative and
industry best practices using modern designs and
tools. - Created process and delivery improvements to
reduce build cycle time. - Developed and evaluated solution options to
build consensus and drive quality solutions. - Collaborated with product specialists to
understand requirements and align business
processes to product features and capabilities. - Recruited, managed and mentored a Software
Engineering team to deliver high quality software
solutions in budget and on time - Lead and contributed to architecture designs
- Ensured code quality by in depth code reviews
- Developed, Tested and deployed scalable and
highly available software products
Senior Software Engineer
BMW AG
Munich, Bavaria
05.2019 - 10.2022
- Developed and deployed Highly available cloud native, event driven software in C#, SQL, ASP .net core and various microsoft azure components for logistics processes
- Part of a team that migrated our solution from PaaS web services to Azure kubernetes services, focusing on high availability, and reliable failovers.
- Developed and Worked on Parking and Charging and Traffic management solutions for autonomous transport robot orchestration services
- Developed and deployed a Datalake solution and Reporting infrastructure using various Azure and Bi software
- Lead a Workstream for Analytics and Data infrastructure where current and new proposals are discussed
- Developed and deployed solutions that use Kafka/RabbitMQ/Azure EventHub brokers to send information to various other systems
- Developed a path planning (Djikstra) solution to idendtify the closest robot in a fleet of robots to complete a specified instruction
- Scrum master for a team of 7
Team Lead: Integration & Innovation Services
BMW SSSC
Pretoria, Gauteng
07.2018 - 05.2019
- Responsible for a team of 12 that implements Integration solutions across BMW and the SSSC on EAI (IIB), sFTP, ITL(xBus), MQ's, C:D, PIX, EDI and Bash Shell
- Required to meat 95% SLA in the DevOps space for EAI
- Consult on various systems and projects regarding EAI Solutions
- Gather information from Clients in order to construct user stories (Jira) and plan them accordingly within the team
- Construct new EAI solutions using IIB
- Required to analyze new technologies and the feasibility of implementing them withing the BMW SSSC Excellent Projects
- Should be able to analyze businesses cases and find new technologies and POC a solution that could meet the Business case
- Built a Blockchain solution for Supply chain (for TP-404) uses cases with a small team on AWS, Docker and Intel
- Created a chatbot POC that facilitate desk booking in SSSC using Google DialogFlow and NodeJs
System Integration Specialist
BMW SSSC
Pretoria, Gauteng
07.2015 - 06.2018
- Building enterprise application integration solutions based on EAI (IIB), sFTP, ITL(xBus), MQ's, C:D, PIX and Bash Shell Facilitate and setup CICD Pipeline using IIB and Jenkins
- Debug complex EAI solutions in Java, Consulting on Architecture and Integration solutions of various Middleware solutions
- Required to manage customer expectation based on project timelines and deliverables Required to analyze the feasibility of implementing and integrating new solution into a globally deployed system
- Provide technical support to project teams in an Agile and Devops working model using ATC Toolchain
- Scrum master in a small team to implement EAI solutions
- Motivated the need for replacement of a Legacy EAI solution and got R4 Million to fund the project
Web Developer
BMW South Africa
Pretoria, Gauteng
02.2014 - 06.2015
- Required to rebuild legacy ASP application in SAP Webdynpro and ABAP
- Built new ESS/MSS/CSS Role concepts based on SAP Portal
- Required to analize requirements from business in order to design BMW Group and Me (HR portal) solution for BMW South Africa
- Build BI reports based on Webi for users in the manufacturing hall
- Migrated Legacy servers onto new servers
- Built and Deployed the BMW Group HR web portal apps
Systems Developer
Futuresoft
Pretoria, Gauteng
04.2012 - 01.2014
- Required to build high quality software solutions from requirements raised by clients in ASP.NET and various other technologies
- Upgrading, configuring and debugging existing systems
- Providing technical support for web, desktop
- Building reports based on SQL Server 2008+
- Design usable UI/UX based on HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript
- Building Web-services based on XML, SOAP and WSDL
- Committing code using to source control (GIT/SVN)
- Collected client requirements onsite and converted into usable software solutions
- Build a solution that integrated with a provider that send USSD messages to Debtors
Promoter (Playstation 3 / Sony)
Craving Novity
Johannesburg, Gauteng
02.2011 - 04.2012
- Trusted with R15000 worth of equipment in public spaces to present and sell to potential clients
- Facilitated clients to test equipment and explained features
- Facilitated about 1500+ people in testing equipment within 1 day
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Africa
Pretoria 07.2013 - 06.2018
Higher National Diploma - Computer Science
CTi Education Group
Pretoria 01.2011 - 10.2012
Skills
C#
undefinedCertification
Coursera: Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
Accomplishments
Won the BMW SSSC innovation competition 2018 for a part tracking solution using IoT devices and SAP technologies
Interests
Technology, AI
Traveling
Timeline
Development Team Lead
Trayport
11.2022 - Current
Azure Developer Associate
08-2022
Senior Software Engineer
BMW AG
05.2019 - 10.2022
Coursera: Convolutional Neural Networks
01-2019
Coursera: Sequence Models
01-2019
Coursera: Deep Learning Specialization
01-2019
Coursera: Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
11-2018
Coursera: Structuring Machine Learning Projects
11-2018
Coursera: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
09-2018
Team Lead: Integration & Innovation Services
BMW SSSC
07.2018 - 05.2019
System Integration Specialist
BMW SSSC
07.2015 - 06.2018
Web Developer
BMW South Africa
02.2014 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Africa
07.2013 - 06.2018
Systems Developer
Futuresoft
04.2012 - 01.2014
Promoter (Playstation 3 / Sony)
Craving Novity
02.2011 - 04.2012
Higher National Diploma - Computer Science
CTi Education Group
01.2011 - 10.2012
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