Stephen Zoio
Senior Staff Engineer at Yoco
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Zoio is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Cape Town with 11+ years building resilient, data-intensive systems and a decade of earlier experience in investment banking quantitative roles. He is a polyglot engineer and pragmatic functional-programming enthusiast who has led backend and data engineering teams, driven Kafka-based event architectures, and contributed to notable open-source work such as Azure Service Operator features for EventHub capture. His strong quantitative foundation—an MSc in Financial Mathematics—informs a disciplined approach to designing trading-grade platforms, pricing engines, and large-scale data pipelines. Equally comfortable in Scala, Java, Python and C#, he combines hands-on development, DevOps fluency, and consulting experience across tier-one enterprises. Lifelong curious, he pairs production delivery with rigorous testing and a history of removing complexity (for example, streamlining controller/webhook configurations) to make systems more maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Mathematics, BSc Hons Mathematics at University of the WitwatersrandMSc Financial Mathematics, MSc Financial Mathematics at King's College London
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
azure10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
microsoft-azure10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
blob-storage9
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
terraformer4
terraform4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-service-operator
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on developing features related to capturing EventHub data to Azure Blob Storage within the Kubernetes environment. They implemented functionalities including creating, deleting, and managing EventHub resources with capture capabilities. The user also contributed to setting up and improving controller tests, including mock implementations and test environment configurations. Additionally, the user worked on the removal of webhooks and associated configurations.
kubernetes-operatorsazure-resourceskubectloperatorkubernetes
simplesourcing/simplesource
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Simple Sourcing is an API for building event sourcing systems
Contributions:51 PRs, 104 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 2 months
apidddevent-sourcingcqrsmicroservices
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