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Dellan Muchengapadare

@dellanmuchengapadare

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AWS Certified Senior Engineer with 7+ years of experience. Expert in Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS cloud migrations.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can build reliable, scalable products with a collaborative engineering team. I enjoy backend engineering, system design, and automation, working with tools like Ruby on Rails, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and AWS. I value ownership, maintainable code, and consistent delivery.

thousands of businesses globally. I specialize in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React, and TypeScript, with strong experience designing scalable systems on AWS using Docker, ECS, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CDK and Terraform.

In my current role as a Senior Software Engineer, I work across product, infrastructure, and automation. From modernizing Rails applications and migrating databases to implementing AI-driven automation tools. Previously, I helped migrate legacy Rails systems to modern architectures, built serverless features on AWS, and contributed to performance improvements that reduced downtime and accelerated release cycles.

I’ve also built open-source tools, including a Ruby gem for integrating the PayFast payment gateway (2,000+ downloads), and webhook-based automation services. I enjoy solving real business problems with pragmatic engineering solutions and simplifying complex systems wherever possible.

Outside of work, I enjoy tennis, chess, and building small experimental software projects.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Fullstack Engineer

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Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Improved and sustained property management and booking systems for SMB owners, led migration from Rails 6.1 to Rails 8.x and moved infrastructure from EC2 to container-based AWS ECS, improving deployment consistency and performance.

Ruby on Rails React TypeScript Docker AWS ECS CircleCi PostgreSQL CI CD

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Fullstack Rails Engineer

Current

Innstyle

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Improved and sustained property management and booking systems for SMB owners, led migration from Rails 6.1 to Rails 8.x and moved infrastructure to container-based AWS ECS to improve performance and release cadence.

Ruby on Rails React TypeScript Docker AWS ECS PostgreSQL MySQL to Aurora migration Node.Js NodeJS CircleCi LLM Integrations

Fullstack Ruby on Rails Engineer

Platform45

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Maintained and modernized Rails and Node.js systems for SMB customers, upgraded Ruby/Rails stack and improved performance and CI/CD workflows, contributing to tools that supported 3,000+ companies with measurable revenue and profit growth.

Ruby Ruby on Rails React TypeScript SQL Optimization CI CD Git PostgreSQL Node.Js NodeJS

Fullstack Engineer

Platform45

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Maintained and modernized a Rails-based platform used by 3,000+ SMBs, driving average annual revenue growth of 28.9% and profit growth of 32.4% by improving backend performance and developer workflows.

Ruby on Rails Ruby 3.x Rails 6.x Caching React TypeScript CI CD SQL Optimization Node.Js NodeJS

Senior Software Engineer

Tatango, Inc

Apr 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 10 months)

Led migration of legacy Rails components to React (TypeScript) and Node.js, built a new CI/CD pipeline with AWS CDK, and implemented tracking features that reduced downtime by 25% and accelerated release cycles by 30%.

Ruby on Rails React TypeScript AWS Serverless CI CD AWS CDK Containerization Node.Js NodeJS

Fullstack Engineer

Tupublish, Inc

Jun 2020 - Apr 2021 (10 months)

Developed and deployed a social media web application for writers, built and monitored the MVP and architected AWS-backed infrastructure for high availability and low latency.

Ruby on Rails JavaScript AWS Deployment DevOps Monitoring Infrastructure Architecture CI CD