Wade has been developing software for over 20 years, and has a passion for software engineering and architecture. Wade started his career in his home country, Barbados, then spent two years working in the San Francisco Bay Area the United States, before migrating to Johannesburg where has called home for the last 15 years. He has worked a developer and architect on numerous financial systems, including: 24/7 high-throughput, low-latency payments; securities settlement; straight-through processing, branch banking and devices; and identity management. He is currently works as an engineering coach at Standard Bank, with the goal of helping Standard Bank become the best software engineering organisation on the African continent.