Cameron Waldron
Senior Engineer at Primer
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolCameron Waldron is a senior Principal/Technical Lead with over 17 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, high-availability platforms across fintech, SaaS, and enterprise domains. He specialises in resilient distributed systems, microservices, event-driven design, and Infrastructure-as-Code, and is fluent in Java, C#, and Python. Cameron has driven measurable business impact—automating KYC and loan scoring to cut decision time from 48 hours to 10 minutes and enabling over $1M in disbursed loans—while processing millions in transactions for tens of thousands of SMEs. He pairs hands-on debugging and platform design with strong engineering leadership, mentoring teams and embedding observability and test automation into delivery. Based in Johannesburg, he also holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and an AI Programming with Python Nanodegree, reflecting a blend of practical systems expertise and data-driven problem solving. An inventor as well as engineer, he led patented work on zero-knowledge encryption and large SQL performance wins that underline his security-first, performance-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Northcliff High SchoolAI Programming with Python Nanodegree, AI Programming with Python Nanodegree at UdacityUniversity of Johannesburg 
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (74)
application-framework10
java10
stackexchange10
asynchronous10
netty10
event-driven10
nio10
umbraco9
redis-client9
csv9
pluggable9
authentication9
encoding9
snappy9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CamW/npam
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Npam is a dotnet core interface and wrapper around the UNIX Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) libraries. Npam also includes dotnet core interfaces into other related library calls for group and account information. Npam is built on Linux-PAM but should easily work with other unix systems.
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 7 months
unixdotnetpamlinux-pamcalls
CamW/shrew-reconnect
Dec 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
vpn-clientvpnconnection
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