Chris Olivier
Founder at Sinapse Technology
Pretoria Metropolitan Area South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Olivier is a founder and seasoned technologist with over a decade of experience architecting enterprise-grade contact centre and CRM solutions and building a SaaS product to map dependencies across people, processes, and systems. He blends hands-on engineering (TypeScript, React, .NET Core, ArangoDB) with strategic architecture and security guidance for large banks and payment platforms, having acted as CTO and trusted advisor across major organisations. A pragmatic Agile and Lean coach, he helps teams adopt Scrum and Kanban to deliver measurable business value rather than just features. Chris also contributes to the TypeScript open-source ecosystem—improving DefinitelyTyped and ArangoDB definitions—demonstrating attention to correctness at the types-and-integration level. Based in Pretoria, he combines enterprise consulting experience with startup product-building instincts, making him effective at bridging business and technical stakeholders. Notably, his work spans both legacy migration projects and modern cloud-native designs, giving him rare depth across eras of enterprise software.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (12)
arangodb10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
javascript8
asp-net6
memory-leaks6
ilmerge6
asp-net-mvc6
snk6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to TypeScript type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. Their work focused on correcting return types for functions and merging updates from the upstream master branch. They added TypeScript definitions for queue operations and fixed function signatures. The user's contributions centered around ensuring the accuracy and completeness of type definitions for various libraries and frameworks.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
chrolivier/arangodb
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 months
data-modelsdatabase-modelextensionsin-memory-databasejavascript
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