Sashen Pillay
Platform Owner
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolSashen Pillay is a Platform Owner and seasoned mobile engineering leader with 8 years’ experience building and scaling iOS-first products in South Africa’s financial sector. Currently steering the Old Mutual mobile app ecosystem, he moved up through hands-on roles from graduate iOS engineer to engineering and technical lead positions at Standard Bank and Old Mutual, combining ownership of codebases with team-level delivery and technical strategy. He blends deep iOS expertise with platform thinking—balancing feature velocity, maintainability and cross-team coordination—and has a track record of guiding teams through successful deployments. An engineering graduate from the University of Johannesburg, he also brings an educator’s patience from years tutoring mathematics, which informs his coaching style and focus on developer growth.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
National Senior certificate (Bachelor’s Degree) Matric, National Senior certificate (Bachelor’s Degree) Matric at Verney CollegeUniversity of Johannesburg 
English
Github Skills (7)
displays8
ios-application8
location7
swiftui5
ios5
swift5
alamofire4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sashen943/Split-Bill
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Sashen943/Fly-Away
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 6 months
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