Danny Simfukwe
Software Engineer at Future Foundation
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Simfukwe is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems, developer tools, and infrastructure across startups and established companies. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, PHP, PostgreSQL and Rust, and brings a performance- and architecture-first mindset to reliability and team efficiency. As founder of EazieBuy Technologies he turned an AI-powered, mobile-first ecommerce builder into a revenue-generating platform with features like AI support agents, WhatsApp ordering and local payment integrations—demonstrating product instincts as well as engineering chops. Based in Johannesburg, he pairs hands-on implementation (Docker, AWS, Redis, Sidekiq) with leadership in technical decision-making and developer workflows. A practical polyglot who moves between DevOps, backend architecture and AI-for-commerce, he focuses on shipping scalable solutions that meet local market needs.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of London
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dannysimfukwe/custom_php_framework
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
dannysimfukwe/paychangugem
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 1 year 2 months
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