Web Developer
ProDG Software Development · Windhoek, Namibia
Where it started. Custom content-management systems and front-end websites for corporates and SMEs across Namibia.
Player 1 / Swakopmund, Namibia
Roland IhmsSoftware Consultant & Systems Builder
19 years of building the systems that quietly run countries — one segment at a time.
Level 01Origin story
From Windhoek to Christchurch and back again.
Seven roles, two hemispheres, one long climb. Every milestone makes the snake a little longer.
Search Marketing Consultant
OnPage1 · Christchurch, New Zealand
Crossed an ocean to learn how the web gets found. Top-end SEO and search-marketing services for SMEs.
Co-Founder
My-Child · New Zealand
An early-childhood education platform that let parents and family follow a child's learning progression.
Software Developer
IhmsMedia · Namibia
Came home and started IhmsMedia: a software-development consultancy building bespoke business systems.
Managing Member
Intouch Interactive Marketing · Windhoek, Namibia
Ran the biggest digital agency of its day. Clients: MTC, GIPF, Standard Bank, Bank Windhoek, Nedbank, FNB, eBank, Namdeb, De Beers and Namibia Media Holdings.
Team Lead
Enterprise platforms · Namibia
Led the team shipping national-scale systems: SMS feedback on every FNB teller, MTC's queueing platform and the content hub behind NMH's newspapers.
Software Consultant
Independent · Swakopmund, Namibia
Banking, payments, media and pharma. Architecting, building and mentoring on the systems organisations can't afford to get wrong.
Level 02Boss fights
Systems people can't afford to get wrong.
Banking cores, live TV and continent-spanning CRMs. Each boss defeated adds three segments.
NMH Content Hub
1 hubpowering every masthead
A centralised content-management hub that feeds every publication site: Namibian Sun, Allgemeine Zeitung, Republikein and all their sub-editions.
MTC Queue Management
EveryMTC mobile home, nationwide
A bespoke queueing platform: enquiry-based routing, voice call-up screens running video ads, recorded staff and customer conversations, and SMS ratings after every session.
NBC × Standard Bank Jukebox
Live TVSaturdays, 20:00 on NBC 1
Viewers texted artist codes to vote for the next music video. Live SMS votes drove the leaderboard while #NBCJukeBox mentions streamed from Facebook and Twitter on air.
▶ Watch it on airNamPost Front-Office Banking
Everypost office in Namibia
A teller and back-office banking application on top of the core platform: KYC, card binding, biometric enrolment, transfers, statements, deposits and withdrawals, plus every member migration.
Pension Payments Engine
100M+pension payments processed monthly
Ingests huge payment files, identifies account holders across legacy and new systems and emits batch files for both, on time, every month.
Stratus Legacy Migration
10 yrsof banking history, reconciled
Imported a decade of legacy banking data, reconciled every transaction into balances and statements, migrated customers on enrolment and integrated it all with SAP ERP.
Global Pharma CRM
3continents, one CRM
A Microsoft Graph-integrated CRM (PWA, Android and iOS) unifying subsidiaries from Australia to Africa and Canada, each with its own products and procedures, with on-demand reporting for managers.
+ Side quests also completed
- FNB CommunicatorSMS feedback after every teller interaction
- GIPF MessagingTransactional SMS + e-mail, wired into member systems
- Sanction ScreeningUN & PEP list screening for FIA compliance
- Core SMS PlatformUsed by Megabuild, Wanderers & Social Security Commission
- UundunoTournament & player-stats portal for Namibian sport
- Banking Support PortalHelp desk wired into core banking
- Hybrid Customer PortalMulti-tenant digital statements at scale
- EEFT / ENCR PortalNamPost's gateway into enhanced payment streams
- Internet BankingAdvisor & mentor to NamPost's in-house team
Level 03Inventory
Everything picked up along the way.
Watch the snake sweep the board and fill the kit.
00/31 collected
The kit
Front-end
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Solid
- Ionic
- PWA
Back-end
- PHP
- Laravel
- CodeIgniter
- REST APIs
- Microsoft Graph
- SAP integration
Data
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Hasura
- PlanetScale
Messaging
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- SMS gateways
Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
- Netlify
- DigitalOcean
Craft
- OpenAI
- SEO
- Architecture
- Team leadership
Level 04House rules
How I play the game.
Six rules learned the hard way.
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Talk early, talk often
Efficient communication with clients and teams is the difference between a project and a success.
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Well versed
Nearly two decades across a wide spread of languages, frameworks and platforms.
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Legacy & bleeding edge
Comfortable keeping ten-year-old production systems alive and shipping on the newest stacks.
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Integration is the game
The future of IT is systems talking to systems: banking cores, ERPs, SMS, Graph and more.
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Built to be found
A search-marketing past means everything ships discoverable, fast and accessible.
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Give back
Part of the local tech community for well over a decade, now mentoring the next teams.
Game over? Not even close.
Let's build the next level together.
Open to consulting, architecture and hard integration problems — anywhere in the world, from the Namibian coast.