Shaaheen Sacoor
Head Of VAS Engineering at Electrum
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolShaaheen Sacoor is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading VAS Engineering at Electrum where he oversees three teams and drives resilient rollout, monitoring, and developer-friendly frameworks. Joining Electrum early in its growth, he progressed from intern to Head of VAS, shaping infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and standards that reduce friction and operational risk. He combines hands-on development experience across front-end, Java-based backends, and databases with practical leadership in delivery and observability. A UCT Business Science graduate with distinction, Shaaheen also has teaching experience tutoring early-year CS students, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentorship and knowledge transfer.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Glenwood High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Business Science specialised Computer Science, with Distinction, Bachelor's Degree, Business Science specialised Computer Science, with Distinction at University of Cape Town
English
Github Skills (4)
building-blocks6
payment-gateway1
typescript1
payment1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Shaaheen/Practicals--CS2001F
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Shaaheen/myWebsite
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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