Danei Rall

Danei Rall

Industrial engineer and entrepreneur striving to see the world and change it. Passionate about changing lives by giving people the right tools, from software to board games.

danei.rall@gmail.com +27 78 108 5153 Stellenbosch, South Africa

Experience

Mar 2020present

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer

Findamentals (Pty) Ltd, trading as Fintr

Built the business from the ground up alongside a co-founder, covering product, operations, finance and delivery.

  • Co-designed FinMaster and took it from concept to market. Now distributed in 54 stores across 3 countries, including a nationwide Exclusive Books launch.
  • Led development on Fintr4Schools, a digital learning platform now adopted by 5 schools. Wrote the educational content, managed the development team, designed the brand identity, and runs implementation and customer success.
  • Project managed two R1M+ corporate deals end to end: hiring, logistics, train-the-trainer delivery, impact measurement, stakeholder management and reporting.
  • Converted high-impact clients including Absa and FinMark Trust, running each through proposal, negotiation and contracting.
  • Built the company's operating backbone: processes and software for financial management, inventory, logistics and reporting dashboards.
  • Co-developed Mini Millionaires, a weekly newsletter reaching 1,750+ parents.
Nov 2021Mar 2024

Industrial Engineering Consultant

Profection Fresh, trading as Simply Garlic · Contract · Pretoria

The project covered identifying opportunities for improvement, setting goals, and seeing implementation through. A management-level continuous improvement and digitalisation programme across all departments, reporting directly to the CEO.

  • Rebuilt production planning and refined the bill of materials.
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end digital traceability across the supply chain, from intake to dispatch, giving the business the record-keeping its food safety certification depends on.
  • Stood in as financial manager during the incumbent's maternity leave.
2018Feb 2022

Industrial Engineer & Systems Developer

Horizon Global · Pretoria

Started as a vacation work student and stayed four years, moving from the factory floor to the development team. Part of the group that led digital transformation across multiple departments, replacing paper trails with working systems.

  • Ran requirements elicitation with process owners across manufacturing, human resources and quality, translating how the work happened into what the software needed to do.
  • Handled implementation, training and change management.
  • Later joined the development team, building custom software to support business processes.
Mar 2020present

Industrial Engineering Consultant

Process Doctor, self-employed · Part-time

Became a specialist in ERPNext and the Frappe framework, running implementations end to end: eliciting what the business needs, building the custom development to support it, then handling rollout and the change management that comes with it. Coded in Python, JavaScript, HTML and Jinja.

ClientsScymyn, Giant Ratio, Starktail

Education

2022

Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning

University of the Free State
2020

BEng (Hons) Industrial Engineering

University of Pretoria
20162019

BEng Industrial Engineering

University of Pretoria
2015

National Senior Certificate

Hoërskool Lichtenburg

Recognition

Alumna
Leadership foundation founded by Francois Pienaar.
Alumna
UK education trust supporting scholars across Africa.
Fellow
Women in engineering leadership.
Fellow
Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship.
Alumna
Accelerator for faith-based founders building ventures across Southern Africa.
With Fintr
International Educational Games Competition, for FinMaster.

References

Dirk van der Laarse
+27 82 388 1368
Johann Strydom
+27 82 615 5574
Elijah Djan
+27 74 245 3038