Raymond Mlambo is a Software Engineer in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, focusing primarily on developing and maintaining the bespoke systems within the computing support department.

Before joining the team in NMES, he was a software engineer in South Africa, working in higher education for 8 years, where he was tasked with Moodle development (using PHP), ASP.NET development, Python (Django) development as well as managing the development team in the capacity of IT Development Manager.

He holds a BSc degree in Information Technology. 

 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, maintenance and testing of the bespoke and open- source faculty web applications
• Apply the latest security updates and patches to our open source web applications.
• Create and update user documentation for our bespoke systems
• Create unit tests for the bespoke web applications
• Installing and configuring open-source web applications
• Resolving support tickets escalations
• Understand technical specification but also being confident to challenge proposed solutions.