Deon Oosthuysen
Agile Master at BMW IT Hub South Africa
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDeon Oosthuysen is an Agile Master and seasoned product leader with over eight years of focused experience managing products and services across IT, telecommunications, ISP and IoT sectors. He blends strong technical presales and software development knowledge (notably Java) with hands-on product management — having productized multiple services quarterly and managed complex vendor and channel ecosystems. At BMW IT Hub he drives agile transformation, continuous improvement and cross-functional delivery, while earlier roles at Vox, Altron and HPE sharpened his expertise in broadband, VoIP, UC, cloud orchestration and device sourcing. Deon also contributes to open-source embedded UI work, improving LVGL’s rendering and alignment features, which reflects a practical IoT engineering mindset beyond his management remit. He routinely bridges commercial, technical and compliance perspectives to turn feasibility and design decisions into customer-facing solutions and measurable financial outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a decisive facilitator who simplifies complexity and consistently surfaces new product opportunities from evolving vendor and market signals.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Networking, Diploma, Networking at Boston City Campus
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (12)
c1710
embedded10
mcu10
windows-gui10
c1110
microcontroller10
graphic10
lvgl10
exp8
user-manual8
exo8
exq8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lvgl/lv_demos
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Examples, tutorials and applications for the LVGL embedded GUI library
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Deon primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the LVGL embedded GUI library demos. Their commits involved correcting issues related to animation callbacks, LED style settings, and theme management within various demo examples. Additionally, the user addressed compile errors and compiler warnings while ensuring compliance with version updates by replacing outdated functions.
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lvgl/lvgl
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Deon contributed to the embedded graphics library by modifying source code files related to color conversion, label rendering, and symbol definitions. They fixed compiler warnings, removed incorrect assertions, and updated various aspects of the library, including the addition of new symbols and the implementation of alignment features for button matrices. The contributions indicate a focus on UI improvements, bug fixes, and functionality enhancements within the library's core components.
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