Dick Swart
Lead Software Engineer at Trade Me
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDick Swart is a Lead Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with over 10 years of experience delivering full-stack and mobile solutions across enterprise and product teams. He blends strong front-end craftsmanship (HTML5, JavaScript, Angular, SASS) with backend C#/.NET expertise, having driven projects from inception to production at organisations like Trade Me and Education Payroll. As a hands-on technical lead he balances architecture and delivery, mentoring teams while shipping pragmatic, well-documented solutions for payroll and SaaS products. He also has mobile development experience (Objective-C/Swift) and a history of integrating workflow automation into front-end build pipelines. Outside work he pursues home automation projects, reflecting a curiosity for practical IoT and automation that often informs his engineering approach. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who continuously experiments with new technologies to improve user-facing experiences and developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hoërskool AkasiaComputer Science Diploma, Computer Programming, Computer Science Diploma, Computer Programming at CTI Education GroupHigh School, High School at Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (136)
tuya10
python10
firmware10
ota10
knx10
automation10
esp3210
rgb10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
dac10
tasmota10
home-automation10
timers10
iot10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DickSwart/WLED
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
ledsleddmx512rgb-ledsneopixel
DickSwart/dickswart.github.io
Aug 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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