Summary
Adrian Smith is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Western Cape, South Africa, with a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms and back-end systems. He progressed through engineering roles at Media24 and NewsTeam, where he was the first hire on a startup team that built the award-winning Cosmos publishing platform and led microservices and Kubernetes deployments. Since 2017 he has driven backend and platform work at JUMO.WORLD and now JUMO, focusing on reliable APIs, data ingestion and operational tooling. Comfortable across the full stack, Adrian pairs hands-on coding with system-level thinking and a preference for shipping pragmatic solutions over salesy outreach. He prefers quiet, technical collaboration to cold-calls, and maintains side projects that reflect a continuous curiosity for new tools and patterns. Colleagues know him as a steady technical lead who turns messy integration challenges into maintainable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Certificate, 12, Matric Certificate, 12 at Rondebosch Boys' High School
Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, 8.5, Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, 8.5 at Varsity College
English, Afrikaans