Daniel De Villiers
Full Stack Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDaniel De Villiers is a Full Stack Engineer from the Western Cape with a strong focus on Software Defined Networking, packet processing and hardware off-load for cloud and data center environments. He holds an MEng (cum laude) in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications and brings hands-on experience developing firmware/microcode for SmartNICs/DPUs, optimizing Open vSwitch/DPDK pipelines, and automating CI/CD and deployment workflows. His background spans telecom-grade network deployments at Nokia, customer-facing troubleshooting and automation, and R&D at a fabless semiconductor startup where he offloaded OVS-TC rules to reduce CPU load. Comfortable across embedded firmware, FPGAs, containers, and GNU/Linux, he excels at bridging electronic engineering depth with systems software pragmatism. Colleagues value his appetite for complex challenges and rapid learning, often surfacing creative cross-domain solutions that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, cum laude, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, cum laude at Stellenbosch UniversityIEB Matric Certificate, IEB Matric Certificate at Bridge House SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
Github Skills (25)
xmpp10
ssl10
imap10
async10
smtp10
network-programming10
gevent10
event-driven10
dns10
twisted10
network10
irc10
ospf10
networking9
python9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thinkst-daniel/twisted
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Event-driven networking engine written in Python.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
maxo0o/bikeled
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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