Colin Sindle
Founder at Aviaturing
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolColin Sindle is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a strong academic foundation (MSc cum laude) in electrical and electronic engineering. He has built and led engineering teams, served as CTO, and founded multiple startups where he designed patentable software and hardware and drove product-to-market delivery. Colin favors analytical, simplicity-first solutions that emphasize resilience, maintainability, and unequivocal customer value, and he has hands-on experience across SDLC, technical architecture, infrastructure financing, and PaaS/SaaS product strategy. He’s comfortable bridging deep technical design with commercial realities—managing costing, adoption strategy, and disaster recovery while keeping systems as uncomplicated as possible. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he’s currently running Aviaturing and PicoJump.com after a fractional CTO stint at Uliza. An uncommon thread in his profile is the combination of formal electrical engineering research training with pragmatic startup execution, enabling both inventive hardware/software approaches and profitable company building.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMSc. Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Electrial & Electronic Engineering, cum laude, MSc. Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Electrial & Electronic Engineering, cum laude at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (87)
gps10
gliding10
aviation10
internet-connection9
peer-to-peer9
gps-tracking9
synchronization9
windows-mobile9
captive-portal8
linux8
signal-processing8
rtl-sdr8
vms8
mutability8
oauth8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
csindle/waypointsZA
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Waypoints for glider pilots flying in the Cape, South Africa.
Contributions:12 releases, 141 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
capeglide-computerglidinggliding-and-soaringnaviter
csindle/python-ogn-client
Feb 2018 - Oct 2021
A python3 module for the Open Glider Network (OGN)
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
gliderpythonpython3ogn
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