Evans Armitage
Technical Lead Partner at Barclays Africa Group Limited
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolEvans Armitage is a Technical Lead Partner and enterprise integration architect with a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering payments and core banking solutions across major South African financial institutions. He combines Java and Spring Boot expertise with container and orchestration skills (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) and holds AWS, Oracle JEE and Spring Boot architecture certifications. His work spans SWIFT message processing, payment engines and debit order collections, bringing deep domain knowledge from roles at Standard Bank, Absa/Barclays Africa, Wesbank, African Bank and Discovery. Evans pairs practical engineering with systems-thinking, frequently operating at the intersection of back-office payments workflows and scalable cloud-native architectures. He also holds a distinction Masters in Data Science and Financial Technology, reflecting a strong quantitative foundation that informs his approach to resilient, auditable financial systems. Based in Gauteng, he is known for turning complex legacy payment processes into testable, containerized services ready for modern platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Computer Science at University of ZimbabweMasters in Data Science and Financial Technology, Distinction, Masters in Data Science and Financial Technology, Distinction at University of London
Github Skills (18)
java10
retail10
shopizer10
ecommerce9
commerce9
springframework9
messaging5
cqrs4
reactive4
rabbitmq4
spring4
event-driven3
ddd3
microservices3
stream-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
devopsdemoapps/shopizer
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Shopizer java e-commerce software
Contributions:13 commits in 3 months
ecommercecommerceshopizere-commercejava
earmitage/shopizer
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Shopizer java e-commerce software
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
ecommercecommerceshopizere-commercejava
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