JP Bothma

Own sustainability technology for a global dairy trading group — shipping the products and AI automation that turn climate targets into operational reality.

• Shipped Interfarm — a live platform where customers and dairy suppliers plan, fund, and track on-farm CO₂-reduction interventions together
• Building AI agents and orchestrated workflows that automate sustainability operations end-to-end, from data intake to customer reporting
• Set technical direction across R&D, Trade, and Logistics; own architecture and delivery across multiple external engineering teams
• Translate regulatory and customer sustainability requirements into shipped, scalable product

Built next-generation full-body gaming technology — pushing the boundaries of immersive, real-time interactive experiences on web and native platforms.

• Built an in-browser full-body-tracking game with React-Three-Fiber and TensorFlow.js — no installs, no wearables, just a webcam
• Shipped native titles in Unity3D (C#) and Unreal Engine (C++) for Windows and mobile VR
• Delivered the event- and content-management systems powering the product suite
• Introduced custom CI/CD pipelines for reliable, automated cross-platform releases

Led an internationally distributed remote team building a pioneering payment platform designed to expand access to global communication.

• Led a globally distributed team delivering the Talk360 payment platform for emerging markets
• Designed the backend API-aggregation layer in Node.js (MarbleJS), unifying multiple payment providers behind one interface
• Built the Vue.js frontend with a focus on accessible, low-friction payments

Co-founded and led a FinTech venture building trading education, gamification experiences, and an automated algorithmic hedge fund.

• Co-founded and ran the technology side of a trading venture: education products, gamification, and an automated algorithmic hedge fund
• Built quantitative trading systems in PineScript, MQL4/5, C++ and Python, integrating live data from multiple brokers and providers
• Launched Vaultron.io as a white-labelled education platform for scalable client deployments

Created a revolutionary e-learning platform combining AAA Hollywood-grade media encryption with a proprietary anti-piracy layer — a first in EduTech.

• Designed and shipped an e-learning platform with studio-grade media encryption plus a proprietary anti-piracy layer
• Architected multi-tenant infrastructure serving educational organisations internationally
• Led the hands-on engineering team from concept through production

Co-founded a game studio building an infinite multi-scaled ARPG MMO with custom voxel technology and advanced procedural world generation.

• Built voxel and city-building technology delivering infinitely scalable in-game worlds
• Implemented procedural world generation with blend maps and custom shader tooling
• Designed the backend server architecture; built VFX with Unity VFX Graphs
• Mentored the engineering team from prototype through playable builds

Strategic advisor and hands-on developer across a diverse portfolio of startups — banking, food services, IoT, health, and online retail.

• Architected technology and business processes for banking, hedge-fund, and financial operations
• Productionised IoT systems and built 3D data visualisation for industrial clients
• Delivered retail automation and algorithmic tooling with security designed in from the start

Built the company's core IoT data visualisation platform and led a skunkworks innovation division pioneering AR/VR and robotics applications.

• Built Commander Web — the company's primary IoT data-visualisation product — in Angular, C# and .NET Core
• Led the innovation division: AR/VR prototypes on HoloLens and HTC Vive, LiDAR scanning, and robotics
• Created live 3D representations of IoT data for the next-generation product interface
• Prototyped IoT-driven robotic arms with self-taught inverse kinematics and facial recognition