Dan Southwood-wells
Technical Co-Founder at EskomSePush
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Southwood-wells is a technical co-founder and software leader with eight years of hands-on experience delivering scalable systems in fast-moving startups. As Technical Co-Founder of EskomSePush, he rebuilt and operates a Flutter-based app used by millions of South Africans during loadshedding, with an API peak of 1.5M requests per minute and sub-50ms p99 latency, managed on a lean two-person team. He previously led technology at Takealot (Engineering Director) and served as CTO of Superbalist, shaping platform strategy and delivery. His stack spans Flutter, Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Prometheus, serverless, and Firebase, reflecting a full-stack, operations-minded leadership style. Based in Western Cape, South Africa, he draws on formal training in Rhodes University's BSc IS, Hons, and MSc to blend academic rigor with pragmatic product development. He is known for turning ambitious ideas into practical, auditable software systems that scale under budget constraints.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Rhodes University
Github Skills (123)
windows10
cameras10
camera10
admob10
android10
flutter10
ios10
plugin10
desktop10
android-messaging9
flutter-plugin9
ads9
dart9
object-detection9
realtime9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
c4talyst/doc_api
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 4 months
c4talyst/hidutil-key-remapping-generator
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Simple tool to generate HIDUTIL key remapping configurations for MacOS
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
macosremappingconfigurations
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