Deven Blackburn
Software Development Manager at Allied Steel Buildings
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDeven Blackburn is a Software Development Manager with 11 years of experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams and turning technical ideas into production-grade cloud systems. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he combines hands-on expertise in distributed architectures, REST APIs, databases and full-stack web technologies with a strong emphasis on governance and best practices. At Allied Steel Buildings he moved from full-stack developer to manager, shipping integrations across React, ClojureScript, Node and Elixir while mentoring a diverse team. His background spans product-facing roles—CRM, e-commerce and customer portals—to technical leadership, and he regularly bridges engineering with marketing and operations. A former executive director who helped build a regional tech community, he brings uncommon strengths in people development, cross-functional collaboration and startup-style resourcefulness. Deven’s career reflects a practical blend of technical depth and operational savvy, often stepping into varied roles to get projects over the line.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Archaeology, Archaeology at Wayne State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Business Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Economics at University of California, Santa BarbaraFull Stack Developer, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Full Stack Developer, Javascript, Ruby on Rails at Wyncode Academy
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
javascript9
visual-studio-extension9
react9
scripting7
layout7
google-sheets6
visual-studio-for-mac6
google-apps-script6
google-sheets-api6
shadow-cljs6
clojurescript5
visual-studio5
css5
google-docs5
integrate5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hkdeven/Portfolio-Site
Jun 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:254 commits, 237 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
hkdeven/GitHub-Commands
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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