CIO of the Moment: Wim De Bruyn on Building Resilient Platforms, Talent, and South Africa’s Tech Future

In an era where trust, scale, and speed define financial services, technology leadership can no longer be reactive. In this episode of Let’s Talk Data, Lebogang sits down with Wim, CIO at Capitec, about what it truly means to build reliability , not just into systems, but into organizations and people. The conversation explores how large banks move beyond firefighting toward resilient, product-led platforms; how accountability for reliability shifts from engineering teams to leadership; and why CIOs must play an active role in shaping South Africa’s tech talent pipeline. This is a conversation about building systems that can fail gracefully, teams that can move confidently, and an ecosystem that can compete globally while serving local realities.