2000
Sales executive, Incredible Connection. Support technician, Actaris Metering Systems.
It started on a sales floor, building PCs to order.
In February 2000 I started as a sales executive at Incredible Connection in Cape Town, selling and building custom computers, the same year I qualified as an A+ computer technician. Most customers couldn’t tell me what they needed in technical terms. They told me what they wanted to do, and I had to work out the rest.
From July 2001 I was a support technician at Actaris Metering Systems, keeping the equipment a real operation depended on running.
2002
to 2013
Owner, then managing director of my own IT support and retail businesses.
Then I became the business owner.
In 2002 I started iThemba Solutions in Bellville: onsite computer and network support for businesses, with custom-built servers and PCs. In 2003 I paused it for about six months to run a Nerds On Site franchise and qualified in MCSE networking, then went back to iThemba Solutions. From 2008 I ran the Matrix Warehouse Computers store in Durbanville, and from 2010 iThemba Computers, an IT service and repair centre with a shop floor, technicians and an online store.
I did the technical work and ran the business: quotes, stock, 28 suppliers, deliveries, warranties, staff, marketing, and the books on Pastel with PAYE, UIF and VAT. In 2011 I started developing software, first for my own clients alongside the IT work. By mid-2012 software had taken over, and the business became Davalyi iT, a web development company.
- Over 10 yearsrunning my own IT businesses
- 28suppliers managed at the Durbanville store
- Onsitecomputer, server, network and CCTV support
“Before consulting full-time, I owned and operated IT retail and e-commerce businesses. That experience still shapes how I build software: practical, commercially aware, and focused on real operational outcomes.”From my LinkedIn profile
2011
to 2018
Software developer since 2011. Unisa certifications, WooThemes, then Codeable Certified Expert.
I taught myself to code, then proved it on paper and in public.
My software career started in 2011. I taught myself HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL, then WordPress and Drupal, and built sites and systems for paying clients from the start. In 2013 I earned Unisa certificates in PHP and MySQL web applications and in C# .NET programming, both with distinction, plus C++. Ambience Software Development took me on for contract work, then offered me a full-time developer role.
In 2014 WooThemes, the company that created WooCommerce, hired me for WooCommerce support, where I helped more than 850 customers. That October I became an affiliated WooWorker, and in November 2014 a Codeable Certified Expert. Over the next four years I completed 170+ projects through Codeable, many of them fixing work other developers had left behind.
- 170+Codeable projects
- 850+WooCommerce customers supported
- 2Unisa distinctions, 2013
2018
to now
Independent developer and technical lead, then founder of Villiers Vision Works.
Now I build whole systems, from the first conversation to support after launch.
From 2018 the work moved to JavaScript, React and Node.js cloud systems. I built a water-quality kiosk app for a retail chain in the USA, a loyalty and rewards API, and a push-notification server. From January 2021 I spent 13 months building a point-of-sale cloud system for a recycling group on my own, a job that would usually take a team of five. It was built to run seven branches, 350 employees and 5,000 transactions a day.
In November 2022 I started my own product, Authentikor, which I still run. In December 2024 I founded Villiers Vision Works. In 2026 I launched BX1X, my own business platform for billing, stock, bookings, CRM and accounting.
