Summary
Dian Jonker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Potchefstroom, South Africa, with a decade of professional experience and over 20 years of hands-on development experience overall. He has moved between startups and product teams, including founding Signotic, leading technology at Elamant, and most recently contributing as a Web Engineer at Luno before joining ViaMedia. Dian spans full-stack web development with practical expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript front-ends, C#/.NET, APIs and cloud services, and he emphasizes clean, test-driven code and scalable design. He has strong teaching and mentorship roots—delivering MCSD/MCSE training and university-level web development courses—which adds depth to his engineering leadership. Outside engineering he’s applied creative social skills as a DJ and bartender, a background that informs his collaborative, customer-focused approach. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends entrepreneurial initiative with a commitment to maintainable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Adobe Certified Associate, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Adobe Certified Associate, Adobe Certified Associate, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Adobe Certified Associate at CTU Training Solutions
Matric, Information Technology, Matric, Information Technology at Hoerskool Linden
English, Afrikaans