Bradley
Van Aardt
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Johannesburg,
Gauteng, South Africa
--Birthday : 2 March 1982
Language : English
I am an experienced software engineer, holding roles from developer to technical lead
over my career. I have a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering which gives me a good
grounding from the hardware layer up to software. I enjoy working in, building, and leading
teams, and have had extensive experience in this, managing teams of up to 12 engineers.
A large part of my career has been designing and implementing custom software solutions
for consulting clients. I have also worked as the engineering lead / CTO for a SaaS
business, where I gained business skills such as marketing, sales, business operations
and strategy.
I enjoy solving problems and working with people over multiple disciplines.
Experience
Founder, Indri (Pty) Ltd – October 2018 to present
I provide engineering and engineering leadership consulting to startup & small
companies.. A niche that I found is helping smaller companies with their processes and
guiding them through software & security audits. This entails working with the the entire
company to implement policies, procedures and reporting. One of the di erentiators I
o er as a consultant is to help implement whatever changes we identify - whether it is
system design, unit tests, or HR processes.
Engineering Lead, Encentivize, Johannesburg – September 2013 to September 2018
Encentivize was spun-out of Entelect Software, focusing on delivering SaaS products in
the loyalty and rewards space. It was acquired by Compuscan (now Experian) in April
2017.
My role was to lead the engineering team to design, implement and operate the platform
and products to run customer programmes on. We built the system on Azure and
managed a transition from .Net / SQL to the MEAN stack early on.
I also played a role in marketing, sales, operations and business strategy.
Some of our prominent clients included Deloitte, Rand Merchant Bank, First National
Bank, Diners Club SA, Airbus Helicopters SA, Nissan SA, and Telesure.
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Some interesting products that we developed include :
Workpoints (www.workpoints.co.za) , a SaaS employee recognition and rewards product.
Neuron, a customisable multi-tenant oAuth 2.0 server, used for authentication across all
clients
Enigma, a low-cost electronic voucher solution
Chomp, a serverless function system
Partner Platform, a 3rd party voucher and gift card aggregator, delivered to clients as an
API solution.
Technical Lead, Entelect Software, Johannesburg – November 2006 to September
2013
Technical lead on custom software solutions spanning nancial, marketing, military and
loyalty sectors.
I contributed to Entelect's drive to improve delivery and quality by creating internal code
libraries and accelerator projects. These e orts drove down our implementation times,
created more robust software, and facilitated engineers in ramping up on new
engagements quicker.
I assisted other developers and teams with design and implementation. Contributed to the
internal Bootcamp training programme for graduates through content and lectures. I was
also lead coordinator for our internal DevDay conference, where I was mainly responsible
for content and direction.
Research Engineer, Storm Logistics – July 2005 to October 2006
Software engineer on geospatial tracking system software. This was end-to-end, from
embedded device code to server and client software.
Sessional Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
I’ve done sessional lecturing for Wits on a few occasions where the regular lecturers were
on sabbatical leave.
July 2014 - December 2014
Lecturer and co-ordinator for the 3rd year Software Development course at the School of
Electrical and Information Engineering
January 2007 - August 2007
Co-lecturer for the 3rd year Information Engineering Techniques course at the School of
Electrical and Information Engineering
January 2005 - August 2005
Lectured and co-ordinated the 3rd year Information Engineering Techniques course at the
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
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Co-organiser, Developer User Group, Johannesburg - June 2016 to present
The Developer User Group is a technology and vendor neutral group, with the aim of
helping professional software engineers share and learn a wide variety of tech relevant
topics. I help with organising speakers and MC duties.
Education
- University of the Witwatersrand – MSc in Engineering. Topic: Multi-Agent
Communication and Collaboration- University of the Witwatersrand – BSc in Electrical Engineering
Skills
.Net (C#, ASP.Net, MVC, WebApi), SQL Server, Node, Express, Mongo, Javascript,
CentOS linux experience.
Publications
B. Van Aardt and T. Marwala. A study in a hybrid centralised-swarm agent community. In
Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computational Cybernetics,
2005, Mauritius, pp. 169-174. ISBN:-.
B. van Aardt and T. Marwala. Reducing inter-agent communication due to negotiation in
multiagent systems through learning. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the
Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Cape Town, pp. 149-154. ISBN:--X.
References
Martin Naude - CEO Synatic--
Martin was CEO of Encentivize and CTO of Entelect when I worked at those companies. I
reported directly to him.
Shashi Hansjee - CEO Entelect Software--
Shashi was MD and then CEO of Entelect Software when I worked there. I reported to him
for a few months when I worked at Encentivize.
