Andre Smit
Managing Director at Invetec (PTY) Ltd
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Smit is a Managing Director and Professional Civil Engineer with 16 years of experience delivering construction, design and project management across large firms like Aveng and Aurecon. He combines technical depth in geotechnical and infrastructure design with executive experience in business re-engineering, portfolio management and financial control. Andre has led complex mining and infrastructure programmes, implemented construction management best practices and coached leaders through organizational change. His career blends hands-on engineering (Honours in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Pretoria) with formal construction management training from Stellenbosch and early exposure to executive roles in both listed and private companies. Outside traditional civil practice he contributes to open-source engineering tools—enhancing back-end functionality in projects like the Fortran Package Manager and the SfePy scientific library—demonstrating a practical coding aptitude uncommon in senior civil leaders. Based in Pretoria, he is focused on scaling technical teams, improving delivery predictability and developing future engineering talent.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng (Civil) B. Eng (Hons) Geotechnical, Civil Engineering, B. Eng (Civil) B. Eng (Hons) Geotechnical, Civil Engineering at University of Pretoria
Github Skills (11)
package-manager-tool10
fortran10
git10
finite-element-analysis10
el10
package-manager10
f10
python10
numpy10
build-system9
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sfepy/sfepy
Apr 2010 - Mar 2012
Main SfePy repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily focused on enhancing the SfePy library by adding and correcting quadrature coordinates and weights within the `fem` module. Their contributions extended to improving the library's data handling, including Abaqus mesh format support and the addition of 2D quad and tri elements. Additionally, the user implemented convenience functions such as `remove_bcs()` for easier use and addressed documentation and spelling errors within the project.
python
fortran-lang/fpm
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Fortran Package Manager (fpm)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily focused on enhancing the Fortran Package Manager (fpm) by implementing and refining functionality related to retrieving user metadata from Git configuration. This includes writing functions to obtain the user's name and email, providing default values when Git configuration is unavailable, and integrating these values into the project's manifest file. Additionally, the user made modifications to the clean subcommand by adding the --skip and --all flags.
fortran-package-managerpackage-managerfortranfpmbuild-system
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