R E G I O N A L R E V I E W
R E G I O N A L R E V I E W
Sandy Rheeder , Chief Information Officer , Mukuru minimum , to drive effective relationship building and problem solving .
Strategic and operational roles
As Chief Information Officer , Sandy Rheeder , looks after all things IT at Mukuru . This includes typical office IT software and device management for both remote staff and those at the company ’ s various offices and branch locations across Africa .
She oversees product development and focus here is to manage teams that build the technology that underpins the financial services that Mukuru sells to its customers . Sandy heads security and risk management across both the technology products and typical IT operations landscapes .
Her role is to translate business strategy into an executed product and IT strategy . This supports Mukuru ’ s growth ambitions and future proof the organisation in an ever-changing and rapidly evolving technology environment .
The challenges of building software in-house through permanent software development teams tend to be typical of high-performing teams . It is about creating great teams that can find long-term career significance at Mukuru , teams that can solve problems well and are exceptionally good at what they do .
Capacity planning for the right mix of development teams as the company grows , avoiding key-man dependencies with IP that is not shared , and training engineers on new frameworks , security protocols , and more , needs to be precisely managed .
As a FinTech , Mukuru will generally choose to build in-house , as it allows the company to own its technical architecture , and to pivot team capacity to different projects quickly if needed .
Architecture and application stack
Mukuru is a digital platform that uses the cloud , specifically Amazon Web Services , AWS , for its technology , with a strong DevOps approach for managing its infrastructure . Almost all the key applications that allow Mukuru customers to access services , or through which Mukuru staff can support customers , have been built in-house by Mukuru ’ s software engineering team .
The company partners with other platform providers which align to its customer service strategy . These include integrations with WhatsApp , Pattern Matched Technologies , Onfido , Thunes , Xcally , and various Mobile Money Operators , MNO ’ s , among others .
Mukuru builds its technology in a range of coding languages . Flutter is used for customer and staff applications and Web applications , and back-end services are typically built in PHP or . NET Core . Pipeline builds are managed through GitHub . Core staff office applications are managed through Microsoft tools and cloud hosting solutions . www . intelligentfin . tech
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