Francois Grobler
Director IT Development And Professional Services at GESS (Pty) Ltd
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolFrancois Grobler is a seasoned IT development leader with over two decades of hands-on experience in engineering information systems, currently serving as Director of IT Development and Professional Services at GESS in Pretoria. He specializes in integrating Virtual and Augmented Reality with management systems, document and fleet management, billing platforms, and complex server architectures, combined with deep expertise in Microsoft troubleshooting and SQL performance tuning. Francois designs and deploys engineering information management solutions and delivers Bentley software training for road, water and sewer design to engineering teams across government and private sectors. His background as a civil engineer (BIng) and long tenure in both contract and in-house roles give him a rare blend of domain engineering knowledge and practical IT systems delivery. Notably, he has led ProjectWise deployments and bespoke information workflows that bridge traditional civil engineering processes with modern digital management systems. He is recognized for turning complex, regulated requirements into maintainable, performant systems while mentoring engineers in applied software and design workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Matric, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Afrikaans Hoër SeunskoolB Ing (Civ), Engineering, B Ing (Civ), Engineering at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
jquery-plugin10
resumable-upload10
multiple-selection9
bower9
lightbox-gallery9
resumable9
file-input9
lightbox9
jquery-ui8
jquery8
bootstrap8
bootstrap-fileinput7
css7
ajax-upload7
html6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
groblerf/typeahead-mvc-model
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
mvcmvc-5typeaheadtwitter
deRightDirection/GeoJson
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
to-jsonnewtonsoftsqlserversql-serverserver-table
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