theserverkid

I was the kid who could not leave computers alone. Not just using software — deconstructing it, rebuilding it, imagining what could be better. The instinct to question how trust was built into a system started early.

BSc Computer Science (Applied Computing) at the University of the Witwatersrand, then BSc Honours in Big Data Analytics. Practical, intensive, project-driven. Where I first hit production-grade access controls and learned that audits are just questions you have to be able to answer.

Founded Katakwe while at university — an independent vehicle for engagements ranging from startups to enterprises. Nearly a decade of embedding into client teams: cloud architecture, frontend platforms, data pipelines. Each role pushed me deeper into the security and operations layer of whatever I was shipping.

Senior Data Engineer at Monocle Solutions, currently embedded at Lombard Insurance on an IFRS 17 regulatory reporting programme. Building GCP data pipelines where lineage modelling and audit compliance are the same problem — the lineage is the audit trail.