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Daniel Minter

@danielminter

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Software product engineer specializing in scalable backend systems and observability.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for backend or platform roles where I can design scalable systems, improve observability, and drive measurable business impact in collaborative teams.

I'm a Software Product Engineer with 5+ years building scalable, high-availability backend systems for startups and large retailers, from architectural design through full-stack implementation. I have led the creation of Go services, search replatforming efforts, and observability standards that supported millions of customers and high-volume order processing.

My work spans payments, fulfilment, catalogue, logistics and search — with hands-on experience in Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes and monitoring stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. I prioritize robust system architecture, distributed-systems resilience, and actionable observability to drive reliable business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Engineer

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Shoprite - Checkers Sixty60

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Contributed to search replatforming and developed backend services for sponsored and category search, established Prometheus/Grafana observability for new search infrastructure and led work on agentic commerce features for a platform processing 100k+ orders/day.

Golang Replatform Prometheus Grafana OpenSearch Distributed Systems Observability Backend

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IT + Marketing Volunteer

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EcoActive

May 2017 - Present (8 years 8 months)

Worked with the board to restructure teams and implemented a secure G Workspace-based digital organisation to protect sensitive data and amplify the nonprofit's community impact.

Security Policies Stakeholder Management

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Rescue Lifeguard

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False Bay Surf Lifesaving Club

Dec 2015 - Present (10 years 1 month)

Serve as a seasonal rescue lifeguard and trainer, mentoring new volunteer lifeguards and supporting community safety operations for over 10 years.

Training Risk Assessment

Software Engineer

Bash.com

Apr 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 5 months)

Built and owned logistics Go services and monitoring for a multi-store supply chain, integrated multiple couriers processing ~10k parcels/day, led metrics and Grafana adoption and contributed to a supply-chain modernization project.

Golang Event Driven Architecture Kafka Grafana Prometheus Kubernetes

Software Engineer

Quench Delivery Group

May 2021 - Apr 2022 (11 months)

Developed and maintained highly available, scalable Go services for payments, fulfilment and catalogue powering a major retail pharmacy's delivery offering; built an in-house analytics service and integrated Elasticsearch to improve product and store search.