Ben Janecke
Head Of Data And Architecture
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorBen Janecke is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience focused on payment architecture, data products, and engineering excellence across African markets. As Head of Data and Architecture at Peach Payments and co-founder of Operativa, he blends strategic frameworks with hands-on execution to simplify multi-currency transactions, regulatory compliance, and resilient systems in low-connectivity environments. He builds concrete engineering guardrails—covering code quality, security, testing, and compliance—that let teams move faster without sacrificing reliability. Ben’s background spans hands-on development to CTO roles, giving him rare empathy for engineers while shaping platform-level decisions that reduce cost and complexity. He thrives on solving the hardest technical problems for payments in Africa and on helping engineers become more confident through clear patterns and pragmatic standards. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs product-minded architecture with a founder’s drive to deliver maintainable, secure systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (68)
javascript10
container10
react10
publisher9
documentation9
database8
dynamodb8
hotel-booking8
couchdb8
fauxton8
architect8
erlang8
http7
node-application7
serverless-plugin7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BenJanecke/SpreadsheetGear.Fluent
Nov 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
BenJanecke/sane-scaffold
Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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