Riaan Nirhoo is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in banking software development, currently employed at Discovery Limited since May 2018, focusing on Vitality Bank Rewards and Payments using technologies such as Java, Spring, Linux C, SOAP, and Oracle SQL. Prior to this role, Riaan worked as a software developer at Paycode (Pty) Ltd from July 2014 to April 2018, where responsibilities included maintaining and developing back-end banking systems for international clients, and as a programmer at NET1 UEPS Technologies Inc. from February 2009 to June 2014, specializing in software solutions for underbanked countries. Riaan's professional journey began as a junior software developer at ThoroughTec Simulation in 2008, with a foundational educational background in computer science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.