Stephan Kotze

Stephan Kotze is an accomplished Solutions Architect with extensive experience in various technology sectors, currently serving at First Derivatives since October 2020. As the owner of Heap Limited since February 2018, Stephan has also contributed significant expertise in roles at GFT Group, where responsibilities included enterprise architecture, IoT, predictive maintenance, and the development of cloud-based solutions for market surveillance and banking applications. Noteworthy technical skills include Apache Beam, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, with a strong foundation established through earlier positions at Rule Financial. Stephan holds a B.Sc (Hons) and a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria.