Tech Leadership Meetup with Jethro Muller (Founding Engineer at Orca Fraud)

Join us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup.

There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.

The event will be hosted at the Orca Fraud offices in Gardens, Cape Town (Longkloof Studios, 4 Darter Road).

The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.
18:05 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Jethro Muller.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.

Topic of Main Talk - From Zero to Two in a Highly Regulated Environment.

Building a fraud prevention product from scratch is one thing. Doing it in real-time, across emerging markets, under the weight of financial regulation, is another entirely.

This talk is an account of what it looks like to go from zero to a live, production system: the early MVP, the decisions that aged well and the ones that didn't, and the shift from "make it work" to "make it scale." Jethro will walk through the tension between shipping features and building foundations and what it means to be thoughtful about both when the stakes involve real money and real compliance obligations.

He'll also share a candid, work-in-progress note on the engineering culture Orca is still actively shaping and what kind of engineers thrive in that environment.

If you've ever wondered what it takes to build something fast without building something fragile, this one's for you.

Jethro Muller is the Founding Engineer at Orca Fraud, where he's building high-performance real-time fraud detection infrastructure for financial services across emerging markets. A UCT Computer Science Honours graduate, Jethro brings deep experience across Go, TypeScript, and Python — with a track record spanning fintech, cloud infrastructure, and AI tooling. He's the kind of engineer who cares as much about the systems that support a team as the systems that power a product.

Sponsor Bio:
Orca Fraud (https://orca-fraud.com/) is a real-time fraud prevention and AML compliance platform built for the complexity of emerging markets. Backed by Norrsken22 and the Visa Accelerator among many others, Orca gives fintechs, banks, and payment providers across Africa, Latin America, and South Asia the infrastructure to detect and stop financial crime. Their no-code rules engine, machine learning models, and automated regulatory reporting are already protecting transactions across 70+ countries.

Thank you to our sponsors OfferZen
OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.

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