Godfrey Bafana
Software Engineering Team Lead at Mukuru
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolGodfrey Bafana is a Software Engineering Team Lead based in Cape Town with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web and cloud services across fintech and infrastructure teams. He progressed from full‑stack PHP roles to senior engineering and leadership positions, driving deployment pipelines, code quality practices, and automation at companies like Double Eye, xneelo, and Mukuru. Known for mentoring junior engineers and translating client needs into pragmatic solutions, he combines a maker’s discipline with a creator’s mindset—defining architectures and guidelines, not just following them. Passionate about continual learning, he gravitates toward projects that intersect web, cloud, and decentralized identity, and has a track record of improving team performance through tooling and process.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ICT, ICT at KweKwe Polytechnic College
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Github Skills (5)
openapi2
golang2
go-gin2
swagger2
go-generate2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Godzab/godzab
Mar 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
Godzab/go-gpt3
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 8 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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