Alexander Oloo
Executive Business Architecture at Absa Group
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Oloo is an engineering and design leader with 10+ years of experience building digital products and design organisations, currently serving as Executive: Business Architecture at Absa Group after four years as Head of Design. He blends hands-on frontend and Clojure coding chops with product thinking and prototype engineering, having progressed from UI engineer to leading teams of ~200 across web channels, digital sales and banking products. A former assistant lecturer in engineering and long-time mentor, he actively develops talent through internships and board-level youth engagement. Comfortable at the intersection of design, process and code, he also brings practical CSS and shipping experience from startups and enterprise contexts. Based in Gauteng, he maintains a visible creative and technical presence via Twitter, Behance and GitHub under @alekcz.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Matric English Afrikaans French Physical Sciences Biology Mathematics IT Advanced Mathematics, Matric English Afrikaans French Physical Sciences Biology Mathematics IT Advanced Mathematics at St Alban's College, PretoriaHonours in Engineering (B.Eng.(Hons)) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Honours in Engineering (B.Eng.(Hons)) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans, French
Github Skills (67)
authentication10
firebase10
datalog10
linux10
clojure10
jwt10
database10
h2-database10
nginx10
async9
rest9
http-client9
backend9
php9
lisp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alekcz/charmander
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
A set of libraries to make working with firebase easier in clojure
Contributions:95 commits, 4 PRs, 83 pushes in 4 years 7 months
clojurefirebasefirebase-authauthenticationjwt
alekcz/konserve-jdbc
May 2020 - Oct 2022
A JDBC backend for konserve.
Contributions:85 commits, 7 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 4 months
backendjdbcreplikativkonservepostgresql
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