Filipe Teixeira
Senior Director Of Software Engineering (Group Fulfilment) at takealot.com
South Africa
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Top SchoolFilipe Teixeira is a Senior Director of Software Engineering based in South Africa, leading Group Fulfilment engineering at Takealot with responsibility for strategy, architecture and 12 teams (~80 people) across supply chain, warehousing and last-mile systems. He blends a PhD in Computational Neurodynamics and an MSc in AI with hands-on JVM and distributed-systems expertise (Scala, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Cassandra) to turn research-grade thinking into highly resilient, cost-efficient production platforms. Across his tenure he has driven measurable outcomes—halving cloud costs, boosting on-time delivery from 20% to 70%, and enabling 350% on-demand growth—while maturing testing, observability and developer workflows. Earlier roles at Vaticle and Ocado show deep experience optimizing data throughput and building core database and routing systems at scale. Known for removing long-standing technical bottlenecks and introducing pragmatic architecture forums, he combines scientist-level problem analysis with pragmatic operational leadership.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophical Doctorate (PhD) Computational Neurodynamics, Philosophical Doctorate (PhD) Computational Neurodynamics at Imperial College LondonIEB Senior Certificate English Afrikaans Maths Computer Science Science Business Economics, IEB Senior Certificate English Afrikaans Maths Computer Science Science Business Economics at Verney CollegeUniversity of Johannesburg 
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (20)
survival10
steamworks10
fragmentation10
steambot10
colony10
peer-to-peer9
traversal9
udp9
networking9
steam9
unity3d9
network8
encryption8
nat-traversal8
texture-pack8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pipliz/ColonySurvival
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 releases, 517 commits, 180 PRs in 5 years 7 months
partssurvivalcolony
pipliz/cpuvox
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:329 commits, 10 pushes, 11 comments in 4 months
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