Lara Templemore-walters
Partner at iqbusiness
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolLara Templemore-Walters is a strategic design leader and Partner at iqbusiness with over 30 years of experience crafting human-centred digital experiences and scaling design teams across complex enterprise domains like banking and finance. She combines hands-on UX/UI craft and technical fluency with executive-level partnership, advising C-suite stakeholders and translating research into commercially successful product experiences. Lara has built enterprise design systems, led DesignOps transformations, and held full P&L responsibility as a Managing Director, blending business acumen with creative leadership. A certified SAFe Scrum Master and former junior Ruby on Rails developer, she uniquely bridges product, design and delivery disciplines to drive measurable outcomes. Her background spans agency art direction to leading design for large-scale Forex and remittance platforms, and she remains an active learner—recently completing a Master’s in Digital Product Design. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, she brings a rare mix of meticulous design detail, strategic vision, and practical coding empathy to large cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
CSM, Scrum Master, CSM, Scrum Master at Think Agile / Scrum AllianceMaster's degree, Digital Product Design, 85%, Master's degree, Digital Product Design, 85% at TECH Global UniversityMatric, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, Matric, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Greenside HighDipolma in Advanced Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing, Dipolma in Advanced Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing at Shaw AcademyUser Experience for the Web, User Experience for the Web at Open2StudyFull Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer at Craft Academy Sweden/South AfricaScrum and Agile Basics, Scrum and Agile Basics at Growing AgileSafe Scrum Master, Safe Scrum Master at Scaled Agile Inc.Matric, Matric at Capricorn High
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (65)
rspec-rails10
test-coverage9
geolocation9
agile9
netsuite9
sketchup9
bug-tracker9
mls9
rspec9
heroku-deployment9
caching9
travis-ci9
capybara9
cucumber9
mongoid9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lollypop27/MetPlus_PETS
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 76 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
front-endjavascriptreact
lollypop27/bookingz
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:34 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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