Rodney Hawkins
Senior Software Engineer at NjiaPay
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRodney Hawkins is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, real-time web services and leading teams across e-commerce and payments platforms. He has driven high-traffic frontend and backend initiatives at Takealot and Bash, and currently architects systems at NjiaPay after recent senior roles including at delivery.com. Comfortable across Python, Django, React and monitoring stacks, Rodney excels at bridging frontend-friendly BFF designs with durable backend services to handle over 70% of external web traffic in prior roles. His background includes contract work and platform-level contributions—shipping monitoring solutions and integrating complex third-party systems—reflecting a pragmatic, reliability-first approach. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership, having moved from air traffic control training to coordinating multi-team delivery on large codebases. He brings a broad systems perspective and an unusual mix of operational discipline and product-focused web engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BBusSci Finance Accounting (Incomplete), BBusSci Finance Accounting (Incomplete) at University of Cape TownEnglish Afrikaans Mathematics Science Computer Science History (All HG), English Afrikaans Mathematics Science Computer Science History (All HG) at Grey High School
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GradConnection/django-rest-hooks-delivery
Jun 2015 - Oct 2021
Various webhook deliverers for django-rest-hooks and django-rest-hooks-ng.
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
pythondjangorest-hookswebhookdjango-rest
rod-dot-codes/git-sweep-merged-and-stale
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
A command-line tool that helps you clean up Git branches that have been merged into master.
Contributions:15 releases, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 1 day
branchescommand-line-toolmergedmasterclean
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