David Teren
Senior BackEnd Engineer at ablefy
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Teren is a Senior BackEnd Engineer with 11 years of experience specialising in Ruby on Rails, automation, and pragmatic SDLC improvements. Based in Cape Town, he blends hands-on backend architecture and performance tuning with a strong focus on team health, lean processes, and measurable delivery. He has led core services teams and driven reliability and observability improvements across fintech and enterprise products, while also building bespoke automation like RadioBot and a Python-based dynamic audio processor for broadcast-quality ad generation. Comfortable across DevOps, testing, and security practices, he champions flexible, custom agility rather than rigid frameworks. Currently building AI-powered backend capabilities at ablefy, David pairs technical craft with a knack for translating messy operational workflows into repeatable, automated systems. An experienced freelance collaborator, he often bridges product and engineering to accelerate value delivery for both startups and large organisations.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
JavaScript Essential Training, JavaScript Essential Training at Lynda.comPrivacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) at Skillcast Group plcRuby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at TestDome
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (3)
logic-pro-x10
minecraft8
logic7
Github contributions (5)
IMQS/IMQS-OpsHelm
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 month
webappkubernetesdockerdevops
IMQS/devops-server-ping
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 6 branches in 12 days
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