Reid Swan
Full Stack Engineer at Stitch
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolReid Swan is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience building production software across startups and large cloud platforms, currently shaping payments and infrastructure at Stitch after roles at Luno and AWS. He combines a strong theoretical foundation from an Honours degree in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town with a pragmatic, creative approach to problem solving and system design. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, Reid has progressed from core engineering at takealot.com to senior responsibilities at a fast-growing crypto firm and cloud services at AWS. Based in the Western Cape, he brings a knack for simplifying complex systems and iterating quickly—often favoring elegant, research-informed solutions over ad hoc fixes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Honours) Computer Science at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (59)
compile-time10
servo10
stub10
browser10
aws-sdk10
compile10
rust10
mysql9
async9
mariadb9
dsl9
postgresql9
javascript9
webbrowser9
python9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reidswan/reidswan.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
reidswan/proof-of-work-auth
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Example of an auth system that requires proof of work to process a login.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
proof-of-workauthenticationrequiresoauth2login-system
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