Summary
De Van Der Merwe is a founder and CEO with 8+ years focused on advanced robotics, aeronautics and UAV/ drone solutions, leading Endurance Drones from Cape Town to serve commercial and governmental clients across Africa. He blends deep IT architecture and project management experience from large retail and enterprise transformations with hands-on drone design, manufacture and field integration for agriculture, mining, conservation, inspection and emergency response. A pragmatic strategist, he has repeatedly translated complex technical requirements into scalable operational servicesābuilding training, repair and maintenance ecosystems as well as sponsored industry media. His background in enterprise infrastructure and loyalty-platform architecture gives him a rare combination of systems-level thinking and product-focused execution in the unmanned systems space. He is equally comfortable advising on business transformation, IT strategy and cutting-edge aerial robotics deployments across diverse African markets.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B Econ, Business Science, Economics, B Econ, Business Science, Economics at University of Stellenbosch
Matric, Matric at Framesby
English, Afrikaans