Summary
Johan Wasserman is a freelance Data & Software Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale data platforms and enterprise software, most recently as a Senior Data Engineer at Westpac. He blends deep expertise in Big Data technologies, Hadoop, NoSQL and graph databases with practical engineering across Python, Java, Scala and JavaScript, and a long history in systems and infrastructure roles. Johan’s career spans consultancy, professional services and operational management, including running infrastructure and support teams for major outsourcing operations in South Africa. He is comfortable from low-level system administration to high-level architecture and solution design, and is known for rapid learning and pragmatic problem solving. Having moved from technical leadership roles into independent consulting and freelancing, he brings both delivery discipline and the adaptability to tackle new data science and engineering challenges. Based in Pretoria, he keeps a finger on emerging technology trends while focusing on reliable, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer