Personal details

Marthinus S. - Remote full-stack developer

Marthinus S.

Based in: 🇳🇦 Namibia
Timezone: Pretoria (UTC+2)

About

I’ve spent over a decade growing from a hobbyist programmer into a competent individual contributor. For the past five years, I’ve focused on building complete software products from scratch. Most recently, I designed and delivered a major sales platform end-to-end as technical architect and full-stack engineer while collaborating with company leaders to ensure the product met its business goals.

Work Experience

(Contract) Full-Stack Software Developer
BCX Namibia | Dec 2022 - Mar 2026
HTML/CSS
Python
SQL
Git
Flask
Excel
Azure
SQLAlchemy
Docker
Es6
React
Jinja
JavaScript
Chart.js
Gunicorn
Microsoft SQL Server
Azure SQL
Grafana
Prometheus
Tailwind css
Azure pipelines
GitHub Actions
Pydantic
Entra

Sole technical architect and full stack engineer for a greenfield cost-price-quote sales-operations platform, delivering the product end-to-end across 40 months.

MVP timeline was 4 months, Production-readiness was 4 months after that. The platform has been running with zero downtime since initial deployment. ~180K active LOC on handover. The platform now underpins critical business and sales functions and integrates with internal reporting and accounting tooling.

  • Worked directly with C-level stakeholders to deliver pragmatic technical solutions, phased milestones, and delivery priorities.
  • Led discovery sessions, standups, feature walkthroughs, and stakeholder communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Produced UI/UX mockups, technical specifications, deployment runbooks, and internal technical documentation.
  • Designed the application architecture, domain model, and workflow/state logic across 25+ modules and services and operational tooling.
  • Designed, implemented, and evolved the SQL schema; managed production-safe database migrations and release changes.
  • Performed data-analysis on financial resources to validate integrity and health of the system.
  • Built secure enterprise authentication and authorization, tenant-aware SSO, and granular RBAC controls.
  • Implemented backend business workflows, REST APIs, financial validation, accounting software integrations, Blob Storage, CSV import/export, templated PDF generation, and Excel reporting.
  • Developed a responsive hybrid frontend focused on usability for sales and ops users and visibility for managers.
  • Implemented observability and operational tooling, scheduled jobs, health scans, diagnostics, and internal notification capabilities.
  • Established CI/CD and local developer tooling, load testing, and automated build/validation workflows.
  • Wrote tests and release tooling to improve deployment confidence.

Projects

Semantic Crawl - data and applied ML crawler and ingest pipeline
Python
Indexing
Machine Learning
Web Scraping
NLP
Ontology
Data Engineering
RESTful API
LLM
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Search architecture
RAG
Embedding techniques
This is a data engineering and applied machine learning showcase project. It demonstrates the ability to architect and implement a production-grade, distributed data pipeline capable of transforming unstructured web data into a corpus that can be analyzed and searched semantically. It covers high-scale crawling with Common Crawl to natural language processing tasks like topic modeling, named entity recognition, and semantic search.
Number Plates - custom search API
Python
Docker
GraphQL
Golang
RESTful API
Search architecture
A system design project that attempts to provide an efficient search solution that allows users to check for the availability of standard and vanity number plates in Namibia.

Education

WBPH
High school diploma・High School
Jan 2002 - Dec 2006