Wade Morris
Lead Engineer at Virgin Active South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolWade Morris is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a nine-year focus on mobile development, currently based in the Western Cape, South Africa. He has led mobile strategy and execution for high-traffic consumer apps—driving framework modernizations, release orchestration, and measurable stability improvements such as an 8% iOS crash reduction. His background spans native Android, React Native, Flutter, and backend work (Python, Ruby on Rails), giving him true full-stack fluency and a knack for resolving complex production incidents. Wade combines hands-on coding with engineering leadership—setting standards, mentoring teams, and aligning technical roadmaps with product goals at companies like ShopriteX, African Giant, and Virgin Active. He’s particularly skilled at translating product requirements into feasible architectures and has a track record of introducing analytics and observability (Sentry) to boost engagement and reliability. Trained in computer science at Stellenbosch University, he brings practical problem-solving and a community-minded focus to technology that improves everyday user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Computer Science, Maths,Physics, Computer Science, BSC Computer Science, Maths,Physics, Computer Science at Stellenbosch UniversityKasselsvlei High
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
gradle10
android-sdk10
applozic10
chat-sdk10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
messenger9
realtime9
intellij-plugin9
sdk9
chat9
chat-application9
android-view8
android8
messaging8
intellij7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
morristech/draw.io
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
The source to www.draw.io
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
drawdraw-io
morristech/extendedfab
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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