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Kabo Mekgwe

@kabomekgwe

Senior software engineer at Tendam Talent, modernising Winecap with Next.js and NestJS and integrating Stripe, Plaid, and TrustID.

South Africa

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At Tendam Talent, I helped modernise Winecap, rebuilding frontend and backend functionality with Next.js and NestJS. I integrated Stripe, Plaid, and TrustID, and managed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD delivery.

At Standard Bank, I led engineering delivery for Powerpulse, an award-winning solar-financing platform, and modernised services across several applications. I also migrated APIs to NestJS, strengthened security and delivery practices, and coached junior engineers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Full Stack Engineer

Current

Tendam Talent

Aug 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Modernised a legacy PHP application with Next.js and NestJS, integrated Stripe, Plaid, and TrustID, and managed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Next.js NestJS Stripe Plaid TrustID Redis AWS EC2 CI CD

Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead

Standard Bank

Aug 2021 - Jul 2025 (3 years 11 months)

Led a cross-functional team delivering an award-winning corporate solar-financing platform, oversaw AWS ECS microservices and Bamboo CI/CD, and migrated Node.js APIs to NestJS with domain-driven design.

AWS AWS ECS Bamboo CI CD NodeJS NestJS Angular Domain Driven Design Kubernetes Power BI NPM

Senior Software Engineer

iSolve

Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 (7 months)

Accelerated Angular UI development for a hospital record-keeping system by introducing modular design practices and Jest unit testing.

Angular Jest Code Review Unit Testing

Intermediate Full Stack Engineer

DVT

Feb 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 9 months)

Led transition from VB.NET to C# and microservices, implemented CI/CD in Azure DevOps, and built Angular frontend features for data migration and billing applications.