{"id":71,"date":"2023-10-10T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:18:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center-align\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Raiees Valley. I currently work in a hybrid setup for Old Mutual Investment Group as the Software Development and Architecture Manager reporting into the Head of IT Innovation. I look after the technical and human aspect of the engineering team which also includes creating an Architecture and Dev Ops capability &#8211;  Over the years I&#8217;ve come to enjoy incubating and scaling out applications and teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My career spans over a number of industries over a 20 year (and still going) period. Working for Eskom, 24.com, Old Mutual, Sanlam Investment Group and Woolworths &#8211; I continue to learn on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the topics here are based around the software development life cycle, architecture and general use of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I&#8217;m not fiddling with a piece of technology you&#8217;ll find me spending time with my beloved wife and kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Raiees Valley. I currently work in a hybrid setup for Old Mutual Investment Group as the Software Development and Architecture Manager reporting into the Head of IT Innovation. I look after the technical and human aspect of the engineering team which also includes creating an Architecture and Dev Ops capability &#8211; Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raieesvalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}