About Hooligan Development - Hooligan Development

Who we are

Hooligan Development is a boutique development house established in 2013 and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Our speciality lies in the development of custom applications and websites for both desktop and mobile devices, but that's not where our service offering ends.

Hooligan Development offers you a holistic solution from dev through to data analytics, SEO and design. We pride ourselves on building intuitive system architectures that translate into perfect development rollouts for our clients. It's something we do well, really well.

We get excited about developing cutting edge methodologies and rethinking old ways to break new ground and elevate the industry standard.

What we believe

Our clients and partners know that we'll take the time to build genuine, lasting relationships with them. Our unique approach lies in understanding that your work is as important to us as it is to you.

That's why with Hooligan Development, you'll get the kind of personal attention you deserve. It's our mission to create valued solutions and to make a difference in everything we do.

It is with this ideology that we have set our sights on becoming one of Africa's leading development companies.

How we can help you

We have a base of experts that we collaborate with to ensure our clients are provided with comprehensive working results and we’re pretty picky about who we work with. Hooligan Development has been built around the idea that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun.

And while we take our work seriously, we believe that you can be serious without a suit – we’re developers after all and hooligans at heart.

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Mob teams
deployed

Continents of customers

35+

Languages

200+

Projects

Over 2million+
lines of code completed
and still counting

At Hooligan Development, we craft custom software, mobile apps, Wordpress and Umbraco websites around the end human experience, ensuring simplicity over complexity every time.

So, why not engineer your next move to balance your objectives with a user experience that feels less like pulling teeth, and more like second nature? Brief a Hooligan today on your vision, and let’s challenge possible.

Meet the Hooligans

Ricardo Carvalho

Managing Director

Ricardo is a software engineer with a deep desire to explore new technologies and new implementations of existing and legacy technologies.

As Managing Partner of Hooligan Development, he works across the business aligning the strategic intent and objectives of each project. Due to his experience, he has deep insights into data structuring, analytics and information persistence, but most importantly, how to connect all of these.

Having been a developer who worked in global digital agencies, software and hardware solutions companies, Ricardo has an unflinching track record of work and service dedication on the various tasks at hand. After all that, it was time to jump into the entrepreneurial sphere. And that's when Ricardo and Malcolm co-founded Hooligan Development, in 2013.

Malcolm McMorran

Chief Technology Officer

Malcolm is a software engineer and web guru with an extreme passion for software development, especially new and groundbreaking technology.

As Co-Owner and Senior Engineer, Malcolm leads the development teams in pushing the envelope and what is possible of each project. Due to his love of automation and hate of doing things twice, he strives for excellence the first time around.

Having acquired extensive experience in numerous technologies allows him to create exciting, dynamic and user-friendly solutions that clients expect. Malcolm has a proven track record of creating high performance, goal and quality centric teams across multiple projects. All of that is prologue to the Hooligan Development years. Since it's founding, Malcolm and Ricardo have grown Hooligan Development from strength to strength, and knock down all the preconceived notions of tech in Africa.

Abdoul Ouattara

Software Engineer

Abdoul is a senior android developer, who has a knack for mobile development. He studied
computer system engineering at the Tshwane University of Technology. After
graduating, he took many different role such junior smart developer where he was
involved with many project mainly Java enterprise. Once he played around with
android development, he never looked back. He has been doing Android
development for the past 7 years and is also interested in Flutter and
JavaScript.

Blake Loizides

Software Engineer

Blake's specialty is creating streamlined mobile applications. His passion lies in developing
tools that make people’s lives easier.

Mohau Mpoti

Software Engineer

Mohau is a computer programmer by trait.He started to tinkering with
mobile development by learning J2ME, a lightweight JAVA framework designed to
work with feature phones - phones that predate modern smartphones. In 2015, a
year after Swift was introduced as an official language for the iOS platform, he
then explored iOS development and has never looked back.

Katlego Thangoane

Software Engineer

Katlego is a QA automation and manual engineer, RPA(blueprism) developer.

Mlungisi Mbele

Software Engineer

Mlungisi graduated from Durban University of Technology in 2016 with a Bachelor of

Technology in Information Technology, Passed the ISTQB Foundation in software testing exam

in 2016 with an 80% pass percentage to receive his ISTQB Foundation certificate in software

testing, graduated from Durban University of Technology in 2014 with a National Diploma in

Information Technology. During his studies he was tasked with the role of scrum master in his

3 RD year project, which was developed using MVC5, C#, code first database and the agile

methodology (scrum). After university he also underwent training on programming in C#, web

development, Introduction to programming, Effective time management, Microsoft Project

2010 Essentials, Microsoft Project 2010 Advanced, Customers are really everything, Effective

communication in the workplace, Effective presentation skills, excel vba programming,

Microsoft SQL Server at Bytes People Solutions. All of which enhanced his problem identifying

and problem-solving abilities. He is a quality assurance professional whom has

been exposed to and understands most roles within the SDLC, having been a scrum master,

business analyst, developer and quality assurance analyst during his Invotech business

incubator and Titan Ropes projects and understands user interfaces as per his studies during

Bachelor of Technology.

Clifford Hattingh

Software Engineer

Clifford started his career in the gaming industry, turning a hobby into a job and over
the years grew within the company from customer support to 3D artist and
eventually game developer doing both the artwork and coding for mini-games
before switching over to mobile app development.

Elizabeth Provic

Software Engineer

Elisabeth is our versatile front-end developer passionate about learning new technologies.
She is a team player, always open for suggestions and a firm believer that there is
always room for improvement.

Ian Tolmay

Software Engineer

Ian is mostly a self taught web developer, focusing mainly on the functionality of

web design using frameworks such as Angular, and React.js. He is getting used to design flow, in order to become as full stack as possible.

Lechelle Theron

Software Engineer

Lechelle is passionate about branding and visibility, both online and offline. This
passion has sparked a career in design and website development.

Anthony Carvalho

Software Engineer

Anthony is a software developer with a background in website development.

Jonathan Maurer

Software Engineer

Jonathan is a software developer with a passion for modular code and scalable architecture.

Mark Steinbuch

Software Engineer

Mark the Designer, developer and web technologist. He has worked in the digital space
since graduating from the University of Johannesburg with a bachelor of science
in Computer Science. Since then, he has built multiple websites, apps, installations
and games using various technologies. In 2019, he joined a start-up interior design
firm. During this time, he has had the opportunity to develop his entrepreneurial
skills while maintaining his IT abilities through digital projects and contract work.

Monique Naude

Client Liaison Officer

Monique is a our new client liaison officer.

Ryan Groenewald

Designer

Ryan is an Experienced Digital Art Director / Designer with a demonstrated history of
working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Through-
The-Line campaigns, Digital/Social campaigns, Conceptual thinking, UI Design, Web
Design, Animation, Logo Design, Integrated Marketing, Typography and Advertising in
general.

Vivienne Fourie

Personal Assistant

Vivienne is a Personal Assistant for the Director of Hooligan Development.She
keeps in contact with Clients and make sure to relay tasks or requirements from the Clients onto the
allocated Team members. She also keeps up to date with all our Hooligans and tries to help everyone where she can with anything that they need.

Wayne Steedman

Software Engineer

Wayne has been in the development profession for around 8 years, now.
Previously, He focused on back-end development, but has been branching out as
the years have moved on, having experience in back-end, front-end, SQL, Android
and some Cross-Platform App dev. He love learning, and likes to think that he pick
things up relatively quickly and understand concepts well when he puts his mind to
it.

Hal Fynn

Software Engineer

Hal is an extremely dedicated software engineer, with 13 years of experience in developing
and implementing ERP systems. He has amassed a vast knowledge of automating
business processes in almost every industry - from Transport to Education, from
Manufacturing to Finance, and many more.

Mike Stott

Software Engineer

Mike is a creative technologist with over 10 years industry experience . He enjoys
designing and building usable and engaging online experiences. He is a fan of
clean, functional design supported by organised and maintainable code.

Thabo Klass

Software Engineer

Thabo’s drive into computer programming started as a child, with QBasic which was

a tool where children could learn to program in Basic. As the web became

popular, he and some friends started tinkering with JavaScript and HTML. He went

on to do a general first year BSc which included, among other things, Advanced

Calculus, Linear Algebra, Programming in C++ and Databases. He went to Wits

University to further my studies where he continued to create 3D graphics, user

interfaces and Java/traditional LAMP projects.