Jannik Richter
Senior Solutions Engineer at Sanlam Fintech
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJannik Richter is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 11 years’ experience architecting and delivering high-traffic, distributed systems across news, elections, and fintech domains. He has led full rewrites of major South African properties (News24, Netwerk24), built the country’s largest National Elections Portal, and now designs large-scale systems at Sanlam Fintech, balancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Comfortable across the full stack, he translates complex product needs into pragmatic architectures while collaborating closely with engineering teams. A top-150 open-source contributor in South Africa, he also ships indie games and music—evidencing a creative engineering mindset that fuels his production-ready solutions. Based in the Western Cape, he brings a mix of hands-on coding, system design, and a proven track record of operating mission-critical platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software Development, Bachelor's Degree, Software Development at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyParel Vallei
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nikrich/DnDMusicApi
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 42 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 months
apigamesdungeonsmusic-apidragons
nikrich/za-api-covid-19
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Realtime Covid 19 API for South African incidents
Contributions:12 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
apirealtimeafricansouthincidents
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