Donald Jackson
Co-Founder CTO at BVNK
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDonald Jackson is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with 17 years of experience designing and operating high-availability, high-transaction backend systems, now focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms. He has repeatedly led technical strategy and execution across startups and scale-stage companies—co-founding BVNK and Verity and serving as CTO at Apex Visibility and Coindirect—bringing practical expertise in security, performance and systems architecture. His hands-on background spans low-level C, PHP, Java and MySQL to modern distributed architectures, and he has a track record of implementing resilient messaging and transactional engines for payments and telecom. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he combines entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-grade discipline, having scaled products from prototype to production and participated in accelerators like CyLon. An often-overlooked strength is his longevity across roles, reflecting deep operational knowledge from on-call systems to team leadership rather than just high-level design. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and leverages that strong foundational training in both consulting and product-focused engineering.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityMatric, Computer Science, Maths, Science, Accounting, English Afrikaans, Matric, Computer Science, Maths, Science, Accounting, English Afrikaans at Alexander Road High ScoolDiploma, Advanced C Programming, Diploma, Advanced C Programming at Incus Data
AfrikaansGithub contributions (2)
ktgit/ktdocumentindexer
Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
csbde/knowledgetree
Jul 2008 - Feb 2009
Contributions:29 commits in 6 months
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