Amahle Botha
amahle.botha@email.com083 456 7890Cape Town, Western Capegithub.com/amahlebotha
Summary
Junior full-stack developer with a strong grounding in JavaScript and Python from a bootcamp and self-driven projects. Comfortable working across the stack and picking up new frameworks quickly, with a focus on clean, testable code.
Experience
Junior Software Developer · BrightWave Digital
Aug 2023 — Present
Cape Town
Built and shipped 4 customer-facing features for a React/Node.js booking platform used by 3,000+ monthly users. Wrote unit and integration tests that raised code coverage on the checkout module from 40% to 78%. Paired with senior engineers on a PostgreSQL migration that cut average query time by 35%. Fixed 25+ bugs from the support backlog during the first 6 months.
Software Development Intern · CapeTech Solutions
Jan 2023 — Jul 2023
Cape Town
Developed internal tooling in Python to automate weekly reporting, saving the team roughly 5 hours a week. Contributed to a small React Native app used by 40 field staff. Participated in daily stand-ups and sprint planning in an Agile team of 6.
Education
CodeSpace Academy · Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp
2022 — 2022
Cape Peninsula University of Technology · Diploma in Information Technology
2019 — 2021
Projects
TaskFlowgithub.com/amahlebotha/taskflow
A personal task-management web app built with React, Node.js and PostgreSQL, deployed on Vercel with CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
Skills
JavaScript · TypeScript · React · Node.js · Python · PostgreSQL · Git & GitHub · REST APIs · Jest
Languages
English · Afrikaans