Chester Cobus
Keystone Software Engineer at Sand Technologies
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolChester Cobus is a Keystone Software Engineer with eight years' experience building and leading teams to deliver enterprise AI, digital transformation and bespoke software solutions from South Africa. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack development in finance and insurance to technical programme leadership at Sand Technologies, combining Scala, C#, TypeScript and cloud-native practices. Chester excels at translating complex domain requirements into production-ready systems and has repeatedly taken on mentoring and squad-lead responsibilities to boost team performance. He is comfortable across back-end, front-end and deployment concerns, having worked with Akka, Play, React, Docker and MongoDB among other technologies. Notably, his recent roles centered on delivering AI-driven projects for government and large organizations, showing a blend of technical depth and strategic delivery. Driven and goal-oriented, he pairs practical engineering craft with a track record of lifting teams and shipping impactful solutions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
English
Stackoverflow
701reputation
28kreached
38answers
3questions
Github Skills (40)
python8
pipeline8
java8
operation8
data-collection8
postgresql7
snowflake7
mysql7
singer7
mssql7
duckdb6
change-data-capture6
firebase6
data-pipeline6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chesterc314/job-applier
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
chesterc314/supersaiyansearch
Aug 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:182 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
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