Dane Balia
Engineering Lead at Standard Bank Group
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDane Balia is an engineering leader with 11 years of progressive software and people-management experience, now leading engineering at Standard Bank Group from the Western Cape. He blends hands-on development across stacks (from Ruby and C# to Linux tooling and automation) with human-centered leadership, steering teams through migrations, product redesigns and monitoring/automation platforms. Dane has a track record of rebuilding core web products and designing loosely coupled services to sustainably scale operations, informed by early work in telecoms billing and agricultural systems. He pairs formal training in IT/business and computer science with continued software engineering study (UC Berkeley) and a personal commitment to values-driven leadership. Off the console, he’s a husband, father and active Christian, bringing ethical curiosity and steady mentorship to technical and organizational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
CS169-1x Software Engineering as a Service Computer Science, CS169-1x Software Engineering as a Service Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor’s Degree Bible, Bachelor’s Degree Bible at The Bible Doctrine InstituteBachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Technology Business Management, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Technology Business Management at University of KwaZulu-NatalUniversity of South Africa
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Github Skills (136)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
daneb/DesignTime
Feb 2015 - Sep 2021
Plain Text to Sequence Diagram
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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hetznerZA/order_orchestrator
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:33 PRs, 113 pushes, 25 branches in 1 month
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