Summary
Khumo Letlape is a results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack solutions across fintech, healthcare, and consulting environments in South Africa. Currently at Thirdcircles, he combines backend and frontend expertise with quality-focused testing and documentation to ship robust software. His career spans roles at Cambridge Cognition, FNB SA, American Tower, and Deviare, where he built web and mobile applications, chatbots, and API integrations, often mentoring peers along the way. He is comfortable across the stack, with exposure to React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, and cloud deployments, plus a Certificate in Data Science with Python from UCT. He is passionate about learning, experimentation, and turning challenging requirements into practical, auditable solutions, bringing curiosity and collaboration to teams. Based in Gauteng, he has also guided aspiring developers as a Thinkful mentor, reflecting a strengths in both hands-on coding and knowledge sharing.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Programming, Computer Science, Programming, Computer Science at WeThinkCode
Certificate, Data Science with Python, Certificate, Data Science with Python at University of Cape Town
Grade 12, Grade 12 at Selly Park Secondary
English, Tswana, Sotho, Sotho, Zulu, Afrikaans