Thabang Lekwadi
Specialist Product Engineer at Absa Group
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolThabang Lekwadi is a Specialist Product Engineer with eight years of software development experience, currently focused on delivering resilient, cloud-first solutions at Absa Group. He brings a polyglot background—VB, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript—and front-end fluency in Vue and React, plus hands-on AWS experience for building scalable, secure systems. His career spans fintech and trading platforms at Investec and Iress, where he progressed from software engineer to senior roles and led cross-functional teams to production-ready releases. Trained in both computer science and accounting, he combines technical rigor with strong business context, which helps him translate complex requirements into pragmatic product outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who pairs practical engineering craftsmanship with product-minded thinking.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 12, Commerce, Grade 12, Commerce at Phandimfundo Secondary SchoolUniversity of Johannesburg 
English, Sotho, ZuluProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RetroRabbit/CDS-API
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 9 branches in 5 days
RetroRabbit/CDS-Core
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
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