Du Spies
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDu Spies is a software development engineer and MSc candidate in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, currently working at AWS with four years of industry experience spanning internships and teaching. He has deep technical experience in Python/C interoperability, having built an HPy-based backend for the Cython transpiler during a research internship at Oracle Labs, and brings practical skills across HTML, C#, and software testing. As a student lecturer he taught foundational CS concepts and assessment design, demonstrating both strong communication skills and a commitment to mentorship. His background combines research-grade systems work with hands-on product engineering, making him effective at bridging low-level performance concerns and higher-level application needs.
4 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
French, Afrikaans, English, German
Github Skills (2)
api9
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DuToitSpies/cython
May 2023 - Jan 2025
The most widely used Python to C compiler
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
DuToitSpies/hpy
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
HPy: a better API for Python
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
python-libraryapipython
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