Xander Moller

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and maintaining production-critical systems across FinTech, ERP integrations, regulated financial software, hospitality POS, and SaaS platforms. Strong background in PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Vue, MySQL, AWS and distributed systems, with proven expertise in performance optimization, system design, and ownership of end-to-end solutions. Experienced in remote-first teams, cross-platform development, CI/CD, and collaborating closely with product, business, and non-technical stakeholders.

Full Stack Developer at Social Places (2023-03 – Present)

SaaS platform managing business location data, operating hours, and multi-platform presence (Google and other external platforms).

• Senior contributor to a Symfony-based monolithic platform supporting business-critical location and presence data
• Designed and implemented features using Symfony, Doctrine, Vue 2 & 3, and Pinia
• Actively involved in system design, PR reviews, and architectural decisions
• Participated in a rotating production deployment team, responsible for weekly releases and system stability
• Collaborated closely with product and business stakeholders in a remote-first environment
• Regularly leveraged AI tools to automate GitHub workflows, assist with code reviews, testing, and documentation, improving development productivity and consistency
• Contributed as part of a team to the design and implementation of an AI-powered sentiment analysis agent to support client data insights and reporting

Full Stack Developer at TabletPos (2022-08 – 2023-03)

Led and owned the Kitchen Display System (KDS) used by well-known national and international restaurant brands.

• Sole developer responsible for design, development, deployment, and maintenance of the KDS platform
• Built a real-time integration with Lightspeed POS by intercepting receipt data from network printer streams
• Developed backend services in Go to process and distribute receipt events reliably
• Built cross-platform desktop applications using Electron, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Implemented auto-update mechanisms, custom installers, and multi-screen support
• Integrated with touchscreens, printers, and multiple display configurations
• Deployed to hundreds of restaurant installations, including major restaurant brands

Full Stack Developer at Servsol (2021-05 – 2022-08)

Worked on NCR-regulated debt counselling software used nationwide.

• Developed and maintained production-critical financial systems with strict correctness and compliance requirements
• Built features and maintained stability using the Yii PHP framework
• Worked on data-heavy systems focused on financial calculations and reporting
• Supported a platform used by ~1,000 professional users
• Followed agile practices in a highly regulated domain

Full Stack Developer at Infinea (2018-01 – 2020-06)

Worked on a FinTech platform building core banking systems and customer-facing applications.

• Contributed to the evolution from Lumen → Laravel → C# microservices architecture for scalability and performance
• Designed and owned three microservices, including: KYC (Know Your Customer) service, Financial deduction & calculation services, Supporting data-access services
• Implemented REST-based service communication
• Maintained 80%+ automated test coverage across services
• Built frontend components using Polymer and React
• Developed a cross-platform Flutter mobile app (Android & iOS) as part of the banking product
• Worked under financial data protection and compliance constraints

Full Stack Developer at Tigerfish Software (2020-09 – 2021-05)

Development house delivering bespoke software solutions for external clients.

• Led a cross-functional team of developers, a business analyst, and a project manager
• Owned projects end-to-end: requirements gathering, estimation, architecture, development, delivery, and maintenance
• Designed and built greenfield systems using Laravel, Vue, MySQL
• Conducted code reviews, mentoring, task allocation, and sprint planning
• Delivered all projects on time, with long-term client maintenance contracts
• Contributed to a .NET-based property management system, taking over mid-project after developer turnover

Junior Software Developer at Duvesco (2017-09 – 2018-01)

Internal business systems focused on large-scale client data processing.

• Maintained and refactored a pure PHP internal application
• Took ownership of MySQL performance optimization for large datasets
• Re-engineered complex stored procedures and views suffering from severe inefficiencies
• Introduced proper indexing and query rewrites
• Reduced critical processing jobs from ~5 hours to ~2 seconds, enabling real-time execution
• Performance improvements directly changed business workflows and operational confidence

Junior Software Developer at iPlan (2016-08 – 2017-09)

Graduate role focused on ERP integrations and custom enterprise solutions.

• Developed custom Syspro ERP add-ons using VBScript
• Designed and built real-time and batch integrations using C# (.NET)
• Implemented file-based (CSV) and automated integration pipelines
• Built a C# loyalty program integration for a major retail client (Weylandts)
• Automated previously manual business processes, significantly reducing operational effort
• Worked in a small development team supporting multiple external clients across industries

National Senior Certificate – H.T.S Drostdy (2010-01 – 2013-12)

Higher Certificate in Information Technology – C.T.I (2015-01 – 2016-05)