The team
The SWAT team is an international team of technologists who live and breathe the Web.
Over time we will publish more comprehensive individual profiles on this blog, but for now – here are links to the linkedin profiles of some of the team members:
Jacques van Niekerk is the CEO of SWAT.
Leon Coetzee is the COO of SWAT, based in Cape Town.
Tyrone Visagie is Architect in SWAT South Africa, based in Cape Town.
Otavio Ferreira is a Senior Developer and OO expert, based in São Paulo.
Rafael Dohms is a Zend Certified Engineer and Senior PHP Developer based in São Paulo. Rafael is an active member of the Brazilian PHP community.
Guilherme Blanco is a Zend Certified Engineer and Senior PHP Developer based in São Paulo. Guilherme is very active in the PHP community in Brazil and globally.
Rafiq Phillips is SWAT’s SEO expert, based in Cape Town.
Theo van den Berg is an Industry Analyst with SWAT, and is based in Cape Town.
Dani Valentin is a Web Developer and HTML, CSS wizard, based in Sao Paulo.
Our guest bloggers and contributors…
John Kotsaftis is the ex-CEO and founder of SWAT, and currently the CEO of DSTV Online.
Mike Raath was an architect at SWAT, and is currently the head of rugbyzone.com. Mike is based in Johannesburg.
Peter Hart-Davis is a senior security engineer at MWEB (and greatly interested in new media)
Neb Kragic used to be SWAT’s Chief Alchemist (and video file format expert) based in Cape Town. He is now freelancing, and free from offices.
Chester do Nascimento was an architect at SWAT Brazil, based in São Paulo.
Heidi Ocker is SWAT’s PPC and Google Analytics specialist, based in Cape Town.
