Andrew Van Der Westhuizen
Product Head Internet And USSD Banking at Capitec Bank
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAndrew Van Der Westhuizen is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling digital banking channels, currently heading Internet and USSD Banking at Capitec. He started as a web and Java developer and progressed through analyst, Scrum Master, and development manager roles, combining deep technical fluency with product and delivery ownership. Andrew has an MBA and a strong academic grounding in science, which he leverages to align technical solutions with strategic business outcomes. Known for consistently delivering projects on time and within budget, he excels at simplifying complex payments and channel problems into reliable, user-focused products. Based in Cape Town, he brings a collaborative leadership style that empowers teams while maintaining a pragmatic focus on measurable impact. An unexpected strength is his background in education and tutoring, which informs his patient coaching and capability-building approach.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
675reputation
49kreached
22answers
10questions
Github Skills (9)
debugging6
yii6
unit-testing6
flash6
php6
selenium6
weblogic6
trend6
phpunit6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avanderw/icebreaker
Nov 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
avanderw/advent-of-code
Dec 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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