Jaco Nel
Chief Technology Officer at Salus Cloud
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJaco Nel is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience architecting cloud-native, event-driven systems for large-scale e-commerce and subscription platforms across emerging markets. He combines hands-on polyglot development (Java, Node.js, Python, Go, .NET, PHP) with strategic leadership—building autonomous agile teams, improving hiring and retention, and moving monoliths to scalable microservices and serverless architectures. His work has enabled high-throughput payment and subscription systems that handled millions of requests per hour and executed zero-downtime migrations of millions of users. Comfortable spanning product, architecture and operations, he has a track record of removing silos, introducing multi-tenancy, and reducing vendor costs via open-source solutions. Based in Western Cape, South Africa, he brings a persistent, action-oriented approach and a habit of continuous learning that elevates both systems and people.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Internation Advanced Diploma in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering, Internation Advanced Diploma in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering at CTI Education Group
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (32)
php-api9
pipedrive9
client-library8
api8
api-client8
php7
tmux5
rabbitmq5
crm5
messaging5
amqp4
statsd4
rabbitmq-client3
docker3
php-amqplib3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jaconza/secret-ninja
Jun 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:94 commits, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
jaconza/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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