Stuart Steedman
Technical Director & Co-founder at ZiyaPay
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolStuart Steedman is a technical director and polyglot architect with nine years of formal experience and a track record leading development teams across mobile, web and omnichannel systems from Gauteng, South Africa. He has held CTO and head-of-development roles at companies including ZiyaPay, Sebenza Wi-Fi and YONDER MEDIA, architecting mobile-first solutions such as USSD/SMS frameworks, WhatsApp bots, and NLP-driven interfaces that expand reach into untapped mobile consumer markets. Stuart combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, growing teams that deliver award-winning applications and mobile e-commerce and loyalty platforms. He’s equally comfortable in low-level system design and high-level product evangelism, frequently speaking publicly to rally stakeholders around ambitious technology visions. Outside work he’s an off-road enthusiast, a detail that mirrors his appetite for tackling rugged technical challenges. Notably, his career shows a steady progression from senior developer and consultant roles into executive technology leadership across emerging-mobile landscapes in Africa.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Maritzburg College
Afrikaans, Swahili, English
Github Skills (26)
seeding10
google-maps9
laravel8
faker8
laravel-package7
php7
packagist7
phpstorm7
database7
csv7
imports6
exports6
ide-helper6
intellij-plugin6
ide6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nonsapiens/addressfactory
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Creates real addresses from Google Maps, to use in database seeding, unit tests, or anything else. Supports Laravel 5+, and Faker
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 1 year 11 months
database-seedingaddressesunitunit-testsdatabase
nonsapiens/yomoclient-laravel
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:315 pushes, 21 branches, 179 tags in 1 year 7 months
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