Stephen Asherson
Senior Staff Engineer at Yoco
Cape Town, Western Cape, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Asherson is a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building mobile applications, server-side systems and wireless networking solutions, currently leading engineering efforts at Yoco from Cape Town. He blends hands-on Android/iOS and Vue.js/Node.js development with robust backend expertise in Java EE, Spring, REST APIs and distributed caching, having integrated systems with SAP and Oracle at enterprise scale. Stephen has a track record of moving between product-focused startups and large payment platforms, including co-founding a mobile consultancy and delivering production payment systems early in his career. He complements engineering leadership with practical DevOps experience—AWS Docker deployments and monitoring with Splunk—so he can both design architectures and ship them reliably. An MSc in Computer Science underpins his technical depth and long-term focus on payments and mobile experiences.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (22)
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Github contributions (5)
StephenAsherson/Android-OttoSample
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
StephenAsherson/FlippedTableView
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
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