🙂 Andrew Bevan 🔴🔵🟡🟢 · Durban, South Africa · 19+ years at Derivco · 👨👩👧👦 family-first
I'm Software Architect of Games Platform at Derivco, with the role of Lead Architect for Jackpots. 19 years at one of the largest iGaming organisations in the world — across testing, dev leadership, and platform architecture.
Today I lead platform architecture across a multi-region engineering team, with a focus on AI-first delivery, architectural integrity, and the kind of platform modernisation that doesn't force a rewrite. Same instinct as 15 years ago: build the tools and rails that compound other engineers' leverage.
Recent and current work:
- 🚀 Lead Architect for progressive jackpots at Derivco — platform foundation, AI-first development loop, observability, GitOps
- 🤖 Production AI tooling — Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing enterprise game data to coding agents
- 🎮 Architected a cloud-based game management and aggregation platform spanning an entire iGaming estate
- 🃏 Cross-platform multiplayer poker client across Web, Android, Windows and Mac
- BTech in Information Technology, Durban University of Technology
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Web Applications and App Builder
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Web Developer
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework
- Applied Project Management in Information Technology, UNISA
- AI and Big Data, Learning Machines
- ISEB - Test Analyst, BCS
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