Duane Cilliers is a full-stack developer and studio engineer from Cape Town with 12 years of experience building web applications across TypeScript/React, Scala/Lagom, PHP/Laravel and legacy WordPress platforms. Currently contracting for reOS and Trust My Travel while also working at REW, he blends frontend polish with backend pragmatism to deliver production systems. He’s actively expanding into advanced TypeScript, 3D with Three.js and systems programming in Rust and Go, reflecting a shift from traditional stacks to high-performance tooling. A longtime tinkerer—“breaking things since 1990”—he’s also migrated his workflow from VSCode to Neovim, signaling an appetite for efficiency and deep customization.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rust, Rust at Zero To Mastery Academy
Muizenberg High
Engineer’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at College of Cape Town
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