Cobus Carstens
Principal Engineer at takealot.com
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCobus Carstens is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of software experience, currently leading engineering efforts at takealot.com and specializing in embedded and mission-critical systems, telecommunications, Linux, Erlang and PostgreSQL. He combines deep academic training (MSc in Applied Mathematics) with hands-on implementation of distributed systems, identity and role management, and scalable backend services built in Python and Docker. His career spans low-level embedded work (RS232-to-Ethernet, medical treatment system software) through high-level web and platform architecture, giving him a rare ability to bridge hardware-constrained and cloud-native domains. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and operational robustness, often applying formal analytical thinking from his mathematics background to system design.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Applied Mathematics at Stellenbosch UniversityUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (73)
recaptcha10
django10
protected10
python9
aiohttp9
nginx9
protobuf8
swagger-ui8
rest8
rest-api8
openapi8
swagger8
parsing8
rpc8
serialization8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
girleffect/core-access-control
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:69 PRs, 148 pushes, 72 branches in 1 year 2 months
girleffect/core-general
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:32 PRs, 135 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 2 months
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