ES365 was formed in 2016 by Uthmaan Hendricks and Adiel Kader, after working together in the oil, corporate, refinery and retail sectors. With more than 25 years of experience each, they have delivered technology solutions at enterprise level in almost all Information Technology disciplines, in more than 20 countries in Africa and Europe.
We are confident that the knowledge and techniques that we have acquired can be used to benefit almost any organisation.
There is a huge gap between corporate strategy and on-the-ground technical delivery and operational effectiveness. Enterprise Solution Architecture span the gap between the aspirational objectives of the organisation and the delivery of technology-based solutions that adds real business value.
Our Team
The profiles below are our leadership team; additionally, we have several skilled resources who deliver under our guidance. Our resources can work remotely or on onsite on arrangement.
Adiel Kader
Managing Director
Family is my foundation. Everything I build is shaped by what I want to model for my children and contribute to the next generation.
That same responsibility drives my community work, supporting feeding programmes in under-resourced areas and skills development initiatives that help young people move towards economic independence.
Professionally, I operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, governance and enterprise value. With 35 years of experience, TOGAF certification and a platform-agnostic approach across Azure, OCI and AWS, I bring an independent perspective shaped by delivery across the public sector, financial services, retail and energy.
I help organisations modernise, simplify and reposition how they operate, improving performance, reducing risk, unlocking efficiencies and creating sustainable long-term value. My work aligns leadership, operating models, platforms, data, AI, governance and investment decisions to strengthen enterprise outcomes.
I bring a board-level lens to transformation, balancing growth, innovation, risk, ethics, resilience and cost optimisation. In commercially driven environments, this means ensuring technology decisions support revenue growth, margin improvement, customer experience, operational efficiency and long-term shareholder value.
My leadership strength is creating alignment across business, technology, finance and operations. I challenge vendor models, cost structures and delivery approaches so organisations realise measurable value, not just technology spend.
Selected impact includes provincial government transformation across multiple departments serving millions of citizens, including an enterprise AI Framework, Cloud AI Landing Zone, application portfolio management across 600+ applications, data strategy, and practical AI initiatives in agricultural advisory, CV shortlisting and citizen-facing AI search.
Private sector work includes ecommerce platform selection, IT operations remediation, cloud transformation, governance improvement and AI adoption strategy for a large national retailer.
Transformation must create measurable value. Technology should strengthen organisations, make services more accessible, improve decisions and make people’s lives better.
I am open to board, advisory and senior leadership conversations where technology strategy, governance and transformation are on the agenda.
Uthmaan Hendricks
Technical Director
I absolutely love solving problems with technology, and I’m not just talking about the workplace. I do the same at home. I’m a full-on DIY enthusiast, whether that’s repairing appliances, building home automation solutions, or finding better ways to get things done. I’m the free advice go-to guy for family and friends when it comes to home improvements or even buying a car or a computer.
Importantly though, whatever the solution is, it needs to be of real value to make someone’s life better. I do this by solutioning with a quality and value focus, not just for the opportunity at hand but also with the bigger picture in mind. Delivery involves collaborative design, guiding teams, putting in place frameworks as structure and guardrails to keep everyone on the right track. Ensuring adherence to design is imperative to guarantee quality outcomes.
Over the past decade I have specialised in helping organisations modernise their technology platforms, guide them in the assessment and selection of new enterprise platforms, optimise their technology for cost reduction, establish governance frameworks for standardisation and compliance, improve digital experiences, and successfully adopt cloud, data and AI capabilities at enterprise scale.
Madiny Darries
Architecture
I’ve spent a lifetime questioning the accepted narrative — in society, in business, and in technology. As a justice activist, I believe that doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result isn’t just ineffective, it’s a disservice to the people who depend on it.
Family keeps me grounded. Some of my clearest thinking happens around a campfire with my grandchildren — a reminder that the systems we build today shape the world they inherit.
Professionally, I am a DevSecOps transformation specialist with a deeply operational lens and 30+ years of experience across industries. I focus on the engine room: the people, processes, toolchains and culture that determine whether technology actually delivers — every day, at pace, and with built-in security.
Most technology dysfunction is not a tooling problem. It is an operational problem — development, security and operations running in silos, each optimising for themselves, compounding instability and eroding delivery capability. I break those cycles by remediating to root cause, not managing symptoms.
With ITIL and TOGAF certification, I bring operational best practice and governance rigour to DevSecOps adoption. I design and embed operating frameworks, CI/CD pipeline governance, incident and problem management disciplines, and security integration practices that teams can sustain and improve over time.
I lead change through people, not despite them. I work alongside pressured teams to inspire transformation, not impose it. What drives me is watching the pressure lift as change takes hold: morale recovers, deployment frequency increases, incidents reduce and customers feel the difference.
Selected impact includes provincial government transformation across multiple departments serving millions of citizens — cloud operations frameworks, software development frameworks, AI Landing Zone, application portfolio management across 600+ applications, and data strategy. Private sector work includes IT operational practices remediation, platform modernisation and AI adoption strategy for a large national retailer.
The best outcome I can deliver is a team that no longer needs me.
If your delivery pipeline is under strain or your teams are stuck in incident cycles, let’s talk.
Khaliq Dollie
Digital Transformation
I am a Digital Strategist and Transformation Advisor with more than 30 years experience spanning consulting, strategic advisory and hands-on execution. I help organisations translate business priorities into practical digital strategies, modernisation programmes and operating improvements that enhance customer and employee experiences, reduce costs and enable sustainable growth. Having worked with leading organisations across South Africa and the UAE, including the Western Cape Government, Old Mutual, Majid Al Futtaim and Emirates Global Aluminium I combine strategic insight with delivery discipline to turn digital ambition into measurable business value.