Jaleel / JD van Staden
— Portfolio · Vol. 26.1 —

JD van
Staden.

01Software Development Engineer
02Amazon Web Services / EC2
03Cape Town · 33.9°S 18.4°E
04Backend · Cloud · Mobile
05Available for conversation
Edition26.1 / Spring
Updated08 May 2026
Status● Currently — AWS
LanguagesEN · AF · ES · DE
§ 01 — About

A short statement.

Software engineer with two years across backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and mobile development. Currently at AWS, working on the parts of EC2 the rest of the cloud rests on. Interested in cloud, AI, and educational technologies — built carefully, in plain language.

— operating principles
01 / Make the boring parts boring.
02 / Read code aloud before writing more.
03 / Distrust any abstraction you cannot draw on a napkin.
04 / Pick the dull tool that scales.
§ 02 — Experience

Where the time has gone.

2025 — ▸
Software Development Engineer.
Amazon Web Services · EC2
EC2 internals — instance lifecycle, host-level orchestration, the unglamorous parts of the cloud that quietly carry the rest of the internet.
→
2025
Software Engineer
Entelect · FNB Ghana
Spring Boot microservices, iOS features in Swift, containerised deployments with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
→
2024 — 2025
Tech Graduate
Old Mutual Investment Group
Internal tooling with Nuxt.js & .NET, ETL pipelines for data warehouse migration across millions of investment records.
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§ 03 — Projects

Selected work.

P / 012022

Hablemos.

Multi-purpose Discord bot serving 80,000+ users on a Spanish-English learning server — games, utilities, and community tools.

PythonDiscord.pyMongoDB
P / 022026

Broly.

Discord bot in Rust — async architecture on Serenity, sqlx, and tokio with Postgres persistence and graceful shutdown.

RustSerenitysqlx
P / 032025

FairChance.

Blockchain-based police docket tamper-detection system using Algorand's immutability to audit document integrity.

AlgorandFastAPISvelte
§ 04 — Skills

Tooling, briefly.

languages
01Java
02Python
03TypeScript
04C#
05Swift
06SQL
07Rust
frameworks
01Spring Boot
02FastAPI
03Django
04ASP.NET
05Next.js
06Nuxt.js
infrastructure
01AWS
02Docker
03Kubernetes
04CI / CD
05Microservices
§ 05— Education & Languages

Schooled.

2024
BCom (Hons) — Information Systems
University of Cape Town
Honours
2023
BSc — Computer Science & Business Computing
University of Cape Town
Bachelor
EnglishNative
AfrikaansNative
SpanishFluent
GermanElementary

Say
hello.

01 / Emailjaleelvanstaden@gmail.com→02 / GitHubJaleel-VS→03 / LinkedInjd-van-staden→