Product Engineer

Jason van Hattum

I'm a highly motivated, outcome-driven engineer with a healthy balance of soft skills and full-stack development. I have experience leading and driving large, cross-team projects, solving dependencies, breaking silos and growing engineers.

Work Experience

Software Engineer at FareHarbor
May 2025 - present
  • Travelled to Hawaii to provide on-site support to clients, bridging engineering and the day-to-day reality.
  • Proposed and introduced continuous deployment, reducing feedback loops.
  • Drove adoption of AI-powered tooling and product features across the team.
  • Implemented customer-facing features in collaboration with product, design, and adjacent engineering teams.
Tools · Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, Vue, Postgres, GitLab, OpenAI, Codex, Claude
Staff Engineer at Sendcloud
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025 Software Engineer · Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
  • Led a 200k+ LOC migration to TypeScript across 14 teams, introducing tooling, mentoring engineers and securing stakeholder buy-in.
  • Planned and initiated the move from Elasticsearch to InfluxDB for 10+ years of analytics data, reducing costs and centralising expertise.
  • Designed and implemented a recommendations engine using a decade of data to help users save costs and improve satisfaction, coordinating amongst multiple feature teams and data engineers.
  • Introduced regular backend chapter meetings, fostering collaboration among 50+ engineers and contributing to improvements in the ADR process, event-bus architecture, API design, and product alignment.
  • Redesigned the frontend hiring process, creating new technical assessments and interview questions while conducting numerous interviews.
  • Provided technical leadership for a number of projects, designing solutions, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies and shipping code.
  • Took operational ownership of relevant incidents: resolving the incident, communicating with stakeholders, writing the post-mortem and driving follow-ups.
  • Collaborated with product managers, designers and other engineers to design and develop user-facing features.
  • Resolved bugs and provided support on both the frontend and backend.
  • Mentored, challenged and advocated for engineers across all disciplines, reviewed code, and collaborated with solution design.
Tools · Python, Django, FastAPI, Vue, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vite, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, GitLab, Terraform, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Figma, DDD
Full-Stack Software Engineer at AXXS
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
  • Designed and implemented features in a 200+ microservice architecture.
Tools · Java, PHP, JavaScript, Node, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, Vue, HTML, CSS
Senior Software Engineer at EPI-USE
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
  • Extended and maintained the component library used by over 100 engineers at MTN, Africa's largest telecom.
Tools · Angular, TypeScript, Docker, GitLab, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS
Founder & Software Engineer at Verbatic
2019 - 2021
  • Designed and executed greenfield projects end-to-end across a diverse set of technologies while managing clients.
Tools · Java, Angular, C#, Docker, Firebase, GitLab, GCP, JavaScript, MongoDB, PHP, Swift, Tailwind
Software Engineer at Compiax
2016 - 2019
  • Designed and implemented projects across multiple domains and technologies.
Tools · Angular, Docker, Firebase, GitHub, GCP, JavaScript, MongoDB, PHP, MySQL, Tailwind

Education

BSc. (Hons) Computer Science · University of Pretoria
2015 - 2018