Curriculum Vitae
Résumé
Profile
Sachenzo
Full-stack developer and designer with 6+ years of experience building web products from concept to deployment. Passionate about the boundary between engineering rigour and visual craft — I thrive on teams that care deeply about both sides of that equation.
Work Experience
UI Developer
Forma Agency
Worked within a 6-person design and development studio crafting digital identities and marketing sites for local and international clients. Delivered 22 projects over 18 months, collaborating closely with brand strategists and motion designers.
- Pioneered use of GSAP-driven scroll animations across the studio's client work, becoming the internal specialist on motion and interaction
- Built a custom WordPress block library that halved the average project delivery time
Senior Developer
Studio Noire
Lead engineer for a boutique creative agency working with clients in fashion, architecture, and cultural institutions. Architected front-end systems used across 14 client launches, reduced average page load by 38% through aggressive code-splitting and edge caching strategies.
- Designed and built a headless CMS integration layer used across all agency projects
- Mentored two junior developers, running biweekly code reviews and pair programming sessions
- Introduced Playwright-based visual regression testing, cutting QA cycles from 3 days to 6 hours
Frontend Engineer
Meridian Labs
Joined as the third engineering hire at a Series A data intelligence startup. Owned the entire front-end codebase, shipping the company's flagship analytics dashboard from 0 to 4,000 monthly active users within eighteen months.
- Built a real-time data pipeline visualiser using WebSockets and D3.js, featured in TechCrunch's "Tools We Love" roundup
- Reduced dashboard bundle size by 61% through route-based lazy loading and tree-shaking
- Collaborated directly with the design team to establish the company's design system, now used across all products
Education
University of Cape Town
BSc Computer Science — graduated with distinction. Thesis on adaptive rendering techniques for data-dense visualisations. Coursework spanned algorithms, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and distributed systems.
Dean's Merit List, 2016 and 2017. Final-year project awarded the faculty prize for best applied research.