Summary
Sascha Watermeyer is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years' experience designing and delivering real-time payment systems and enterprise banking solutions across multiple markets. He combines deep domain expertise in payments (iDEAL, instant payments) with hands-on skills in Kotlin/Java, Spring, distributed messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBMMQ), and cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Azure, AWS). At Rabobank he’s contributing to a pan-European real-time payments initiative (WERO) after building payment engines in South Africa, showing a knack for translating regulatory and operational complexity into robust, production-ready systems. Comfortable across backend, integration and some front-end stacks (Angular/TypeScript), he also augments his technical background with formal study in cybersecurity risk management. Colleagues rely on him to investigate thorny problems and deliver stable, scalable solutions that bridge legacy banking infrastructure and modern fintech demands.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science at University of Cape Town
Cybersecurity Risk Management, Cybersecurity Risk Management at Harvard University Online
English