About me

Software Engineer

Noord Holland, Netherlands

My name is Nabeel Valley, I'm from South Africa and have been living in the Netherlands since 2023

I have a Bachelor's of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and have worked professionally as a Software Engineer since 2018

My hobbies include building little apps, graphic and ui design, photography, and skateboarding

Experience

Entelect

Senior Software Engineer / Platform Engineer

Amsterdam/Utrecht, Netherlands

July 2023 - present

  • Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer for the web ecosystem
  • Finding ways to make developers in the organization more productive
  • Creation of tools to simplify development tasks or automations to speed up migrations or updates across large codebases
  • Developer enablement on Web Accessibility topics
  • Participation and management of programmes to enable developers to learn and share knowledge at various different levels within Entelect and customer organizations
  • Primarily using Typescript, JavaScript, Angular, Nx, Web Components, and Go along with Azure DevOps

Quro Medical

Senior Software Engineer

Johannesburg, South Africa

May 2021 - July 2023

  • Focused on developing cross-platform applications with React-Native and Typescript
  • Building scalable, cloud-native IoT and healthcare solutions on AWS and GCP
  • Developing and managing machine learning models
  • Working with and up-skilling junior developers
  • Interacting with business to define solutions to healthcare and technical challenges

Mercedes-Benz

Web Developer / Technical Specialist

Pretoria, South Africa

March 2019 - April 2021

  • Full stack web developer in the marketing/customer data analytics team focused on end-to-end delivery of software projects
  • Optimizing customer experiences on web platforms and integrating with a variety 1st and 3rd party applications and supporting with data related operations
  • Using Agile methodologies to delivering software in a three tier, service-oriented architecture
  • Primarily using .NET, Node.js, React, and Jenkins

IBM

Cloud Developer Advocate, Graduate

Johannesburg, South Africa

September 2018 - February 2019

  • Focused on enabling developers on ibm cloud technologies, building POC applications and demos for prospective clients showcasing technologies such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, containers and microservices, DevOps tools and methodologies, blockchain and design thinking
  • Additionally I wrote an article on assembling a continuous deployment pipeline for web applications and coordinated and assisted developers with the Data Science Johannesburg meetup group and the MTN TAG Hack in 2018

Microsoft

Full Stack Web Developer, Intern

Johannesburg, South Africa

February 2018 - August 2018

  • Development of mobile-first progressive web applications for a mentorship program using Angular and .NET Core for Azure called LifeXchange, and the Microsoft Cloud Summit 2018 event information site as well as engaged in client reviews and workshops and project planning. Researched topics on web design and development

Education

University of Pretoria

BEng(Mechanical Engineering)

Pretoria, South Africa

January 2014 - December 2017

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a final year specialization in mechatronics and a research project focused on renewable energy, I also tutored engineering programming in python to second year students

Al Ghazali College

National Senior Certificate

Pretoria, South Africa

December 2013

  • National senior certificate with mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences, and information technology along with English as my primary language and Afrikaans as the second