Summary
Jody Bailey is an intermediate full-stack software engineer based in Cape Town with three years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications using Ruby on Rails, React, Django, GraphQL, and relational databases. At 2U they progressed from intern to subject-matter expert on placement applications, leading enhancements, infrastructure upgrades, and cross-team code mobbing while owning documentation and stakeholder communication. Trained at Umuzi, Jody combines solid fundamentals in algorithms and web architecture with a persistent drive to redefine what a "beautiful and dynamic" website means through continuous self-improvement. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, they are pragmatic about trade-offs and focused on shipping reliable, maintainable features under real-world constraints. An unexpected strength is relentless curiosity—Jody welcomes sleepless nights learning new tools to push their craft forward.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
National Certificate in IT (Systems Development), Web Development, National Certificate in IT (Systems Development), Web Development at Umuzi