Deklerk Basson

Senior Software Engineer. Cape Town, South Africa.

I'm DK, a Senior Software Engineer based in Cape Town. I build and maintain high-performance web platforms, with a focus on React, TypeScript, full-stack development, and architecture that other people can keep working in.

I like hard engineering problems, improving systems that already exist, and products that make a genuine difference.

Senior Software Engineer

The Rank Group plc · 2025 – Present · Cape Town, South Africa

I work on production web platforms used across the business, with more of the technical decisions, reviews, and production ownership than in the role before this one.

Full-stack and frontend engineering with React, Remix, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Umbraco.
Shaping component structure and CMS integration so a multi-brand frontend stays understandable as it grows.
Performance, reliability, and security treated as part of delivery, including production support when something breaks.
Code review, mentorship, and day-to-day decisions with engineering, design, product, and QA.

Intermediate Software Engineer

The Rank Group plc · 2021 – 2025 · Cape Town, South Africa

This is the stretch where I learned the platforms I now help steer. The move into the senior role was on the same products, with a wider share of design and delivery.

Built CMS-driven, multi-brand websites in React and Remix.
Integrated TypeScript and GraphQL, and contributed reusable interface pieces other teams could pick up.
Supported production releases and the handovers around them.
Worked across engineering, design, product, and QA rather than handing work over a wall.

Junior Software Developer

Open Box Software · 2020 – 2021 · Cape Town, South Africa

Commercial engineering on enterprise applications, mostly C#, SQL, and JavaScript, with a real share of the release pipeline.

Maintained enterprise applications and the databases behind them.
Improved CI/CD in Azure DevOps so builds and releases were less fragile.
Supported production data and learned how transactional systems fail in practice.

Custom Development Intern

Open Box Software · 2019 · Cape Town, South Africa

My first commercial software role. C#, SQL, and the ordinary discipline of changing a system other people already depended on.

Supported internal tools and client applications.
Learned version control, review, and structured delivery in a commercial team.

Earlier experience

2015 – 2017 · Part-time Technology Advisor, Recinate (formerly 2interact). Websites, forms, user management, and small databases. Java was the main tool.
2015 · Web Designer, Inside Man Media. Client websites in WordPress, layout, and the graphics that sat with them.

Education

2016 – 2019 · National Diploma in Applications Development, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2010 – 2014 · Matric, Huguenot High School