Etienne Van Tonder
Owner at Cascadia Software
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorEtienne Van Tonder is an experienced software developer and founder with over 25 years in the industry, running his own consultancy Cascadia Software since 1994 from Melbourne. He has deep hands-on expertise across Ruby and Ruby on Rails (since 2007) as well as C++, PHP, JavaScript, Delphi and a broad set of DBMSs including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server. As a long-term freelancer and contractor for clients such as Telstra and Cadbury Schweppes, he delivers practical, production-ready systems across diverse industries. He combines full-stack development skills with system-level experience on Linux, enabling reliable deployments from home-office operations. A longtime maintainer of a public showcase and technical blog, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic focus on client satisfaction. Colleagues value him for steady delivery, wide language fluency, and the ability to pick the right tool for each problem.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (64)
paging10
testing9
pivot9
jquery-plugin9
continuous-integration9
searching9
jquery9
aws9
editing9
jquery-ui9
developer-tools8
python8
serverless-framework8
sdk8
slickgrid8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
springbok/activerecord-sqlanywhere-adapter
Apr 2011 - Feb 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 46 pushes, 6 branches in 10 years
springbok/MLM2PRO-GSPro-Connector
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
GSPro Connector for the MLM2PRO Launch Monitor
Contributions:14 releases, 38 PRs, 285 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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