South Africa Luigi Cap Lario Borges

💼  Employment History

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📅 July 2019 - December 2022

👨‍💻 Senior Software Engineer

Entelect

📍Cape Town, South Africa

Entelect is a culture-first, end-to-end technology services company built on three core principles:

  • Growth isn’t optional

  • Get things done

  • Relationships set us apart

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Entelect, I worked across a diverse portfolio of projects, both in-progress and completed. The role demanded continuous learning, adaptability to different environments, and the ability to build strong client relationships through consistent delivery and professional communication.

Key Outcomes

  • Rapid advancement in technical skills and exposure to industry best practices

  • Hands-on experience following structured development processes including Dev, QA and Release cycles

  • Gained leadership and tech lead experience, managing tasks, mentoring team members, and contributing to strategic technical decisions

Key Projects

  • Old Mutual – New Public Web Led the development of static-generated websites for multiple regions under the Old Mutual brand, using modern front-end technologies. Simultaneously maintained and facilitated the decommissioning of their legacy web platform.

  • Luno – Cryptocurrency Exchange Onboarding Contributed to UX enhancements and regulatory compliance improvements for the Luno Wallet onboarding flow, improving user experience and aligning with financial standards.

Technical Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: Vue.js, Gridsome, Nuxt, React, GatsbyJS, Node.js, StencilJS, Express, GoLang

  • UI & Tooling: Storybook, SCSS, Yarn, Gulp, ESLint, Stylelint, Prettier, Google Tag Manager

  • Databases: DynamoDB, MySQL

  • DevOps & Cloud: AWS CloudFront, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Jenkins

  • Version Control: Git Flow, Trunk-Based Development (with Continuous Integration), Tagged Releases

  • Methodologies: Scrum, Pull Requests with Peer Code Reviews

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📅 December 2015 - June 2018

👨‍💻 Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, USA

📍Mountain View, California, USA

I worked at first data

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📅 April 2014 - November 2015

👨‍💻 Senior Software Engineer

Gyft

📍Mountain View, California, USA

I worked at Gyft

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📅 August 2012 - April 2014

👨‍💻 Full Stack Engineer

Playlogix

📍Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa

I worked at playlogix

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📅 July 2011 - July 2012

👨‍💻 Full-Stack Engineer & Project Manager

Moonlight42

📍Century City, Cape Town, South Africa

Technical Solutions Company | 6 Employees

Moonlight42 was a small technical solutions firm that emerged from the split of a larger company, primarily to conclude ongoing projects and manage a controlled business wind-down. With a lean team of six, staff often wore multiple hats. In addition to engineering responsibilities, I managed client communications, set expectations, and ensured smooth project delivery.

Despite our best efforts, Moonlight42 eventually closed, and I transitioned to Playlogix through retrenchment.

Key Projects

  • Rogzstar Pet Insurance – Developed technical solutions tailored to the pet insurance market.

  • Darkness Falls (Facebook Game) – Contributed to the development of a social game with interactive features and gameplay mechanics.

Technical Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: Groovy on Grails, Node.js, HTML, CSS

  • Databases: CouchDB

  • Project Methodologies: Scrum

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📅 February 2010 - June 2011

👨‍💻 Junior Full Stack Engineer

BSG (Business Systems Group)

📍Cape Town, South Africa

BSG was my first role in the field of Software Engineering, providing a crucial foundation for my professional growth. It marked the transition from academic programming to building real-world applications within a structured, client-facing environment.

Key Learnings & Experience

  • Transitioned from university-level programming to working with enterprise-grade frameworks

  • Gained experience in agile project delivery using Scrum methodology

  • Learned the importance of setting realistic expectations and avoiding over-promising on deliverables

  • Collaborated closely with business analysts and product managers, gaining insight into the full software development lifecycle

  • Developed strong professional communication skills in both internal and client-facing contexts

  • Exposure to SLA (Service Level Agreement) management and delivering within time and quality constraints

  • Hands-on experience with advanced SQL and Java server-side technologies

Key Projects

  • SLA Lead – Lloyd’s of London Projects Oversaw Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for two major Lloyd’s of London projects. Responsibilities included task estimation, assessment of incoming work to distinguish between change requests and bug fixes, and managing charge approvals for work exceeding SLA thresholds.

  • Employee Resource Management Portal Implemented improvements and bug fixes for the internal resource management portal. Extended the application through white-labeling, enabling it to be customized, deployed, and sold to external clients.

  • Lloyd’s of London – Financial Modeling System Contributed to the development of a financial modeling application for Lloyd’s of London. A key technical requirement was implementing all business logic within the database via stored procedures and functions.

Technical Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: C#, ASP.NET, Java, Spring, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), HTML, CSS, jQuery

  • UI & Tooling: Crystal Reports, Apache Tomcat, Internationalization (i18n)

  • Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Hibernate

  • Version Control: SVN

  • Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall, SLA-Based Delivery