About
More than just the code
For eighteen months I was Lead Developer & Technical Support Specialist at webXtreme, managing and maintaining over 100 live client websites, with 50 to 60 active tasks running at any one time across development, troubleshooting and support. That's an unusual amount of surface area for one developer to cover. It's also the most useful thing about me: I'd rather understand why a client needs something than be handed a ticket describing it, and I've spent as much time diagnosing what's gone wrong as building what goes right. I left in July 2026.
Freelancing isn't new for me. I've kept an independent practice running since 2022, picked up and set down around other work rather than something I started fresh this year. Finding the clients, quoting it, registering the domains, setting up hosting, being the person who picks up the phone when something breaks. WebXtreme was full-time; this is a return to working that way full-time again, not a first attempt at it.
In between, I did two stints at Stanco Kitchens as assistant manager and joinery technician, in 2022 and again in 2024, running operations, inventory and staff, and building to a millimetre off technical drawings. It taught me that a plan survives contact with the site or it doesn't, and that the expensive mistakes are always the ones nobody flagged early enough. That translates more directly to software than you'd think.
Freelancing — open to roles
Cape Town — --:-- SAST
- BasedCape Town, South Africa. Happy to work remote, on site, or somewhere in between.
- FreelancedIndependent practice running since 2022, alongside other work: clients, quoting, domains, hosting, support, all of it.
- StudiedHigher Certificate in Mobile App & Web Development, Varsity College.
- StudyingPart-time towards a Bachelor of IT in Business Systems, Rosebank College, alongside the work.
- Off-screenI DJ on weekends, and I still build furniture when I get the time. Most weekends there's a hike up a mountain in there too.
