Dewald De Jager
Technical Lead at Entelect
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolDewald De Jager is a Technical Lead with 10 years of experience in API-driven architectures, cloud migrations and DevOps best practices, based in Gauteng, South Africa. He leads teams at Entelect, building and integrating REST and GraphQL APIs, implementing event-driven systems, and automating CI/CD to reduce lead time and improve observability. Dewald combines hands-on engineering—spanning native mobile, embedded systems, and infrastructure networking—with coaching, technical audits, and SecOps automation to align engineering work to business impact. As founder of Noekie Studios he’s delivered diverse client projects, sharpening rapid learning and time-management skills across languages and domains. His research background in formal methods and optimisation shows up in a pragmatic focus on correctness and tooling, while hobbies like longboarding and tinkering hint at a curiosity that drives continual learning.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Sutherland High SchoolUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
tempo10
letter10
telemetry10
responsive10
collector10
otel10
collapsible9
golang9
hugo9
swarm-intelligence9
http-client9
slf4j9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DewaldDeJager/dearvolt.com
Sep 2018 - Jul 2023
My personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 10 months
DewaldDeJager/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:31 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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