Shahil Sukuram

Solutions Architect | Principle Full-Stack Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure • Enterprise Systems Management • Platform Scale

Project Highlight

Zuzocard

Project role: Technical Lead / React Native Engineer Time period: June 2023 - Sep 2024 Website: zuzocard.com

Fintech Architecture & Development — Led the end-to-end delivery of a PCI DSS compliant rewards platform, architecting a React Native mobile app (released on iOS & Android) for virtual card management and a Vue 3 dashboard for administration.

Systems Integration & Impact — Implemented complex payment flows with PayFast and direct virtual Mastercard issuing. Accelerated delivery from concept to MVP in under 6 months, processing >R500k in transactions.

Technical Leadership — Mentored intermediate engineers on complex front-end patterns and best practices, ensuring high code quality while delivering critical features like passwordless auth and Slack/Teams integrations.

Career History

Infleet International

Project role: Senior Full-Stack Engineer → Solutions Architect Time period: Oct 2024 - Dec 2025

Evolved from Senior Full-Stack Engineer to Solutions Architect. Platform Stabilization - Architected critical remediation programs eliminating system instability (achieving 99.99% uptime), reducing cloud costs by 13% (50% EC2 reduction) through architectural code optimizations, and accelerating deployment cadence to 5-10 releases/week. Multi-Tenancy Architecture - Designed custom database schema migration tooling enabling consolidation of fragmented multi-client architecture. Technical Governance - Primary technical authority leading remediation of 18 high-severity vulnerabilities and answering 85% of questions during AWS Well-Architected reviews.

The Delta Studio

Project role: Senior Software Engineer Time period: May 2022 - Sep 2024

Lora - Developed 4K responsive Dentist Booking web app using ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS. Wndrlst - Full HD responsive Web 3 NFT Gated DApp using VueJS, TypeScript, Pinia, Tailwind CSS, Twitter integration, PWA support. Zuzocard - Led solutions architecture, API design and mobile app development for a PCI DSS compliant employee rewards solution enabling the creation and distribution of funds via virtual debit cards.

The Midas Touch

Project role: Information Systems Engineer Time period: October 2014 - Current

Owner of company. Responsible for client acquisition, project planning, Enterprise database design & development, UI/UX Design, FE Development, REST API development, testing, hosted server environment setup, software maintenance, backups.

HTML5, CSS3, JS, REACT.JS, PHP, NODE.JS, REST API, GRAPHQL API, REACT NATIVE, AWS, UBUNTU, NGINX, APACHE, IOS, ANDROID, POSTGRES, GOOGLE CLOUD, FIRESTORE

Tindale Group

Project role: Mobile App Project Manager Time period: June 2016 - November 2016

Delivered On Show App for iOS and Android. Drafted requirements specification based on patent app. Collaborated with patent-owner on business monetization. Reported to executive management on progress and resource needs.

Real People Group & Aspire Education Group

Project role: Jnr. → Intermediate → Contracting Business Analyst Time period: February 2011 - April 2014

Contracting BA — Finalized Business Requirements & Functional Spec for two mission-critical systems. Performed UAT, facilitated training workshops and JAD sessions between East-London and Johannesburg offices.

Intermediate BA — Documented organization business processes. Engineered processes for eCommerce website. Liaised with mobile app consultancy for educational Math game development.

Junior BA — Determined requirements for organization-wide LMS. Conducted JAD sessions with 5 subsidiary companies. Re-engineered processes improving learner assessment turnaround from 55 to 22 days.