Andre Smith
DevOps Architect at MiWay Insurance Limited
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Smith is a DevOps Architect with a decade of experience delivering resilient software and continuous delivery pipelines for the financial services sector from Pretoria. He rose through deep hands-on PHP engineering into architecture at MiWay Insurance, blending application development knowledge with platform and delivery automation. Notably, he contributes to major open-source tooling—adding South Africa-specific locale data and rigorous unit tests to the widely used Faker library—demonstrating attention to regional correctness and quality. He combines pragmatic engineering, a focus on testable automation, and an understanding of regulatory-sensitive environments to drive reliable production delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.IS Multimedia, IT, B.IS Multimedia, IT at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
php10
lib10
fakerjs10
faker10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fzaninotto/Faker
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily contributed to adding locale-specific data and functionality, particularly for South Africa (en_ZA). This included implementing a company registration number generator and updating phone number formats for the region. The user also wrote unit tests to validate the correctness of the implemented features, showcasing a focus on code quality and reliability within the Faker library. Furthermore, the user updated the TLD list.
php-library
smithandre/toggler
Sep 2015 - Dec 2020
Feature toggle library for PHP
Contributions:17 pushes, 10 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 3 months
feature-togglephptoggle
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