Joel Cedras
Founder at Digifend
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJoel Cedras is a freelance columnist, IT consultant and cybersecurity practitioner studying Computer Science at Stellenbosch University with nine years of hands-on experience across fraud prevention, penetration testing, and full-stack web development. He has a proven track record of finding impactful security weaknesses—most notably uncovering fraud in South Africa’s SASSA SRD grant system that drew national and parliamentary attention—and has responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in major banks, fintechs and government systems. Joel combines practical sysadmin skills (Linux, Nginx, cloud migrations, Microsoft 365/Azure) with dev work in Python/Django and JS, and has led IT strategy and digital transformations for nonprofits and newsrooms. Founder of Digifend and a frequent public-interest investigator, he blends technical depth with a civic-minded approach to make South African systems safer. A less obvious strength is his ability to translate complex security findings into operational fixes and stakeholder-facing reporting, bridging technical teams and decision-makers.
9 years of coding experience
Stellenbosch UniversityNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Protea Heights Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
discord-bot9
discord9
discord-js8
javascript7
js7
nodejs6
delphi3
oop3
database2
privacy1
letter1
ios1
scanning1
security1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SkillBeatsAll/delphi-solutions
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 16 pushes in 6 months
SkillBeatsAll/SkillBeatsAll
Jan 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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