Dean Pienaar
VP Of Engineering at FARO
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Pienaar is a VP of Engineering based in Cape Town with a decade of experience building and leading teams in highly regulated domains like telecommunications and payments. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to senior leadership at companies including Flickswitch, Stitch, and now FARO, consistently focusing on delivery-as-enablement. Dean blends technical depth with business pragmatism, adapting the balance between engineering rigor and product needs as problems evolve. He has a track record of scaling teams and systems through periods of rapid change and regulatory complexity. Early career work in technical support and a background in sound technology give him an unusual mix of user-focused empathy and systems thinking. Colleagues know him for turning complex compliance requirements into practical, auditable engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Sound Technology and Production, Diploma Sound Technology and Production at Cape Audio College
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (90)
render10
django-forms10
javascript10
crossover10
jsonwebtoken10
continuity10
typescript10
filter10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
graphene-django10
capability10
django9
django-field9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deanpienaar/GS_A-Tracks
May 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
management-systemassetsasset-managementasset
deanpienaar/stitch-py
May 2022 - May 2022
A Python integration to Stitch
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 16 PRs in 19 days
stitchpython
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