Jason De Jesuz
i'm a highly skilled software engineer originally from south africa. i have worked on several different stacks, and domains, from infrastructure to frontend. i take pride in my leadership in delivering full stack applications end to end. taking ideas and turning them into real products is where i find joy. i have a well proven track record in south africa, working with companies like mercedes benz, daimler, webuycars, automark, windhoek, astron energy, myfanpark, any many more... where i drove deliverables across different stacks in engineering and product.
What am I working on?
- taking geo spatial and municipal data and turning them into insights for land development @ godirt.ai
- serving real time crypto exchange data from multiple sources for crypto arbitrage traders
- building a saas boilerplate specifically for south african developers
- building powerful workflows in claude code
My Journey
2025 moved to ireland with my girlfriend. delivered live tutoring full stack soluton for a dubai client. got a new role in the usa as a founding engineer to build a company focussed on land development. closed down epictetus research.
2024 parents moved to usa from singapore, singapore startup went bust, started a new company in singapore called epictetus research to build mini saas apps.
2023 became lead engineer at onloop, building the brand new mobile platform. partied in singapore, got invited onto yachts, and saw what wealth really looked like in a country like that.
2022 got a job in singapore as a swe at an ai startup, moved to singapore to stay with my mom, sister and step dad to lock in for work. dad broke his leg while being on site.
2020 registered my business in south africa. did crypto arbitrage, made and lost a lot of money. failed at a lot of things during this time, algorithmic trading, while still working as a swe.
2019 first real swe role at mashlab in south africa, worked with major clients: mercedes benz, bmw, astron energy, grindrod bank, zilch. visited Singapore for first time, visiting my mother and sister after some time of them moving away.
2017 parents divorced and moved out to live with family friends
2018 first job at daisy business solutions, building paperless systems and installing software on printers
2017 went to university, did a partial program at belgium campus in computer engineering
2007 my sister is born in south africa
1998 born in south africa to my mom (afrikaans) and dad (english/portuguese), i have 2 brothers on my dads side
Github Activity
Here's a snapshot of my Github activity and contributions over time, if you cared.
Books
i am not the best at reading, i have noticed some advantages of reading frequently - for me it's not about understanding in the moment, but generally when i meet new people from around the world, whether they are ceos, or engineers - i magically recall information i read about, so its beneficial to see how you have changed over time one you actually look back. i enjoy autobiographies the most, i enjoy reading about real world successes and how someone came from nothing, in a sense it always reminds me of what is possible - other things serve more of a purpose, like mastering engineering and the phases i am currently in life
Daily habits 2026
- the daily stoic by ryan holiday
- the bible (chronological order)
On hand
- functional programming in scala
- shoe dog by phil knight
- meditations by marcus aurilius