Charl Truter
CTO at Locafox GmbH
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCharl Truter is a pragmatic CTO and software engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating web-scale systems across Microsoft and open-source stacks. He began his career focused on C# and SQL Server and has since expanded into Ruby, Node.js, Go, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch, bringing a polyglot approach to problem solving. At Locafox he progressed from developer to CTO, blending hands-on engineering with system architecture and logic-flow optimization. Known as a fast learner who adapts quickly to changing environments, he excels at bridging legacy Microsoft platforms with modern, multi-platform solutions. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he pairs practical delivery experience from senior developer roles with a formal background in software development and business. An understated strength is his long-running commitment to operational reliability and database-driven systems, honed managing complex production environments since 2008.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 12/Senior Certificate, 12, Grade 12/Senior Certificate, 12 at Durbanville High ScoolInternational Advanced Diploma in Business, International Advanced Diploma in Business at CTI Education Group
Github Skills (25)
facebook9
testing8
javascript7
image6
nodejs5
aws-lambda4
aws4
mikrotik3
reward3
amazon3
lambda3
miner2
bitcoin2
monitors2
identity2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CharlTruter/save-mikrotik-usage
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
mikrotikdatabase
CharlTruter/myusage-api
May 2017 - Aug 2018
API for the myusage.io system
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
apisystem-io
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