Summary
Santosh Sewlal is a seasoned Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building and administering databases and data warehouses for major South African financial institutions and startups. He has led and supported large-scale migration and ETL projects at organisations like Sanlam and SA Home Loans, and has strong hands-on expertise across MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SSIS, Teradata and BI tooling. Equally comfortable in operations and project environments, he focuses on building robust, efficient systems and automating repetitive tasks to improve reliability. Santosh combines practical SQL and Python/R data analysis skills with a background in database administration and capacity planning, giving him end-to-end insight into data lifecycles. Now based in the Western Cape, he’s expanding into more complex data science and engineering applications while continuing to deliver production-ready solutions. A quietly persistent problem-solver, he often bridges gaps between developers, DBAs and business users to turn messy legacy data into reliable analytical assets.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at University of Cape Town