Charne Morris

Software developer with 19 years of experience delivering enterprise solutions in financial services at Nedbank.

Background spans development, solution design, functional testing, regression validation, defect tracking, and release management, with a consistent record of delivering production-ready software with fewer than one defect per project.

Experience across C#, Java, SQL, HTML, XML, JSON, and Unix/Linux scripting, and more recently led end-to-end product delivery as founder of a fintech startup. Seeking a software development role that combines strong engineering execution with a rigorous approach to quality and delivery.

Founder at thinaSPLIT Payments (2025-08 – Present)

• Owned end-to-end product delivery for a fintech payments startup, spanning product design, development, testing, legal, partnerships, and goto-market, with full quality ownership across each release.
• Built hands-on capability with AI tooling while engaging with the broader startup and product delivery community.
• Applied modern engineering practices including C#, microservices, event-driven design, Azure cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable product delivery.

Technical Specialist I – ECM at Nedbank Ltd (2023-01 – 2025-07)

• Implemented microservices for document composition and distribution using Java, HTML, MQ, WAS, XML, JSON, and SQL.
• Worked within a SAFe Agile team using Azure DevOps and Jira for sprint planning, defect tracking, and release coordination.

Analyst Programmer/Designer II – ECM Document Processing at Nedbank Ltd (2018-01 – 2023-12)

• Gathered and validated stakeholder requirements and produced detailed design documentation in PlantUML and AsciiDoc to support solution delivery and test planning.
• Developed and functionally tested solutions using C#, Perl, HTML, and Oracle, and wrote Unix shell scripts to deploy to ETE and QA environments.
• Managed change control and release processes end-to-end, maintaining a record of fewer than one defect per project in production.
• Wrote extraction scripts for email volumes on Unix servers and self-learned Talend ETL for large-scale data extraction.

Analyst Programmer/Designer I – ECM Document Processing at Nedbank Ltd (2015-01 – 2018-12)

• Supported production systems and gathered requirements directly from business stakeholders.
• Built C# Winforms applications for report generation and for viewing cheque TIFF files extracted from an Oracle database.

Programmer at Nedbank Ltd (2010-01 – 2015-12)

• Exposed to formal functional testing from 2012 onward, reviewing and testing other developers' code with a strong attention to detail.
• Developed and maintained HTML templates for client outbound communications and built C# Windows applications for the bank-critical Hosted Control Flow project.
• Produced XML for system audits and deployed to DEV/ETE environments via WinSCP and PuTTY.
• Completed a one-month knowledge-transfer secondment to TCS Kochi, India, coding and guiding an offshore development team.

Junior Web Developer at Hands on IT (2007-01 – 2010-12)

• Developed and maintained a bespoke parking system for a UK client using C#, ASP.NET,.NET, SQL, and JavaScript.
• Built reports using Crystal Reporting and SQL.

BTEC HND in Information Software – CTI Education Group (2011)

Programming Certificate – CTI Education Group (2006)

Secondary School – Huguenot High School (2001 – 2005)