Brent Gordon
Lead Product Engineer at Absa Group
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolBrent Gordon is a Lead Product Engineer based in Western Cape, South Africa, with 11 years of experience building and re-architecting web applications across startups and enterprise environments. He blends full-stack JavaScript expertise (Angular, Node.js, React) with pragmatic architecture and a strong focus on testing, CI and Agile delivery. Over his career he has moved from hands-on engineering into team leadership and mentoring, growing support and cross-functional teams that include PMs, BAs and QAs to improve client outcomes. Brent has deep experience modernizing legacy systems—most notably helping replace an SAP ERP with a web-based platform at Absa—and enjoys R&D work on web components, NoSQL and mobile wrappers. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem solver who elevates team capability while still contributing to code and reviews. He prefers solutions that simplify complexity, evidenced by past work replacing heavy portals with bespoke XML UI languages and streamlined JS stacks.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Software Development, National Diploma, Software Development at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologySenior Certificate, High School Equivalence Certificate Program, Endorsement, Senior Certificate, High School Equivalence Certificate Program, Endorsement at Groote Schuur High School
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (23)
doi7
health7
documentation-generator6
jsdoc6
javascript6
firebase-cloud-messaging5
firebase5
api-documentation5
data-repository5
firebase-authentication4
markdown4
generator4
typescript4
workflow-engine4
firebase-realtime-database4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bgordon01/express-polymer
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 days
web-componentsjs-frameworkscaffoldingjavascriptexpress
bgordon01/database
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
genericdatabasedatabase-accessdao
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