SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN A LEARNERSHIP @ STANDARD BANK

VUSIMOZI SOLANI

ROLE Software Engineer

LEARNERSHIP Standard Bank SA (Through Mar 2027)

PROJECT REF Go Alerting Platform (Hermes SME) / Card Migrations (AWS)

// Platform Engineering / Observability / Systems Design Candidate.

Engineering microservices pipelines, alerting telemetry aggregates (Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana), and secure POPIA-compliant transaction databases.

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SEC 01 //

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION (ABOUT)

// Subject: V. Solani

I am a Software Engineer currently in a Learnership at Standard Bank South Africa (through March 2027).

My day to day at SB involves the migration of card processing systems to the cloud via the SmartVista Issuing Platform (SVIP), transitioning legacy transactional architectures to AWS. Additionally, I act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Hermes, a microservices-based Go system consolidating transaction alerting metrics from Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana across OpenShift and AWS ECS clusters.

Complementing my engineering work, I study part-time towards an MCom in Informatics at North-West University, having obtained my BCom Honours in Information Systems Cum Laude. My interest lies in building robust cloud infrastructures, telemetry frameworks, and secure microservices.

Trilingual (English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana). Experience spans AES-256 encrypted endpoints, Supabase RLS security, and background telemetry pipelines.

SEC 02 //

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS (STACK)

01 // PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Go
Python
Java
JavaScript (ES6+)
PHP
SQL / MySQL

                    02 // INFRASTRUCTURE & ORCHESTRATION
                    AWS (ECS, ECR, DynamoDB)
AWS (ACM, EC2, CLI, CloudShell)
OpenShift
Harness CI/CD
GitLab CI/CD
Docker / WAHA
Splunk / Grafana
Jira Pipeline Integration
Confluence

                

                    03 // COGNITIVE INTEGRATIONS
                    Azure AI (AI-900)
AWS AI Scholars
Groq AI Engine
Ollama local LLMs
Amazon Q
                        

                

04 // PERSISTENCE & FLOWS

Supabase
PostgreSQL RLS
Firebase Service
Railway Container
Postman REST

SEC 04 //

LOGICAL PIPELINE (JOURNEY)

APR 2025 — PRESENT

SOFTWARE ENGINEER / DEVOPS ENGINEER (LEARNERSHIP)

Standard Bank South Africa — Platform Engineering

SVIP Platform Cloud Migration: Mapping and orchestrating system deployments for legacy card processing architectures migrating to AWS.
Hermes Alerting platform SME: Appointed subject matter expert for the Go-based Hermes alerts engine across AWS ECS and OpenShift.
CI/CD & Deploy Pipelines: Restructuring automation steps using GitLab CI and Harness.
Telemetry Design: Building observability flows and Splunk dashboards to parse production logs.

APR 2024 — NOV 2024

STUDENT ASSISTANT

North-West University — Mahikeng Campus

Instructed technical tutorials and handled lab setups for Information Systems classes.

DEC 2023

MARKING ASSISTANT

Department of Basic Education — Zeerust

Sorted, logged, and archived secondary examination script records.

SEC 05 //

ACADEMIC DATA & CERTIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC DATA

Master of Commerce in Informatics

North-West University — Feb 2025 – Present

BCom Honours in Information Systems

North-West University — 2024

Average: 74% // Completed

BCom in Information Systems

North-West University — 2020 – 2023

Cum Laude — 75% — Dean's List

National Senior Certificate (Matric)

2020

CERTIFICATIONS LIST

Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Microsoft — Sep 2025

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft — Jul 2025

Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert

Postman — Feb 2026

Learning GitLab

LinkedIn Learning — Sep 2025

What Is Generative AI?

LinkedIn Learning — Apr 2025

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Cisco Networking Academy — May 2025

Solving Problems with Critical & Creative Thinking

IBM — Aug 2023

Responsive Web Design

freeCodeCamp — Feb 2022

SEC 06 //

TRANSMISSION (CONTACT)

Open to graduate and software development opportunities. Reach out directly through any of the channels below.

Email Vusimozi.solani@gmail.com LinkedIn vusimozi-solani GitHub MuziDaniels

Location Midrand, South Africa