Francois Nel
Expert Software Engineer at IoT.nxt
Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolFrancois Nel is an expert software engineer based in Centurion, South Africa, with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a 9-year focused tenure at IoT.nxt building IoT and enterprise solutions. He combines a super-analytic mindset with deep C# and legacy VB6 expertise, having developed ERP systems, industrial OPC servers, and FMCG software across multiple roles. Beyond development, he has run network and systems administration tasks—Active Directory, DNS, WAN, RDS, backups and firewalls—bringing full-stack operational ownership to projects. His career shows a steady progression from technician roles to senior engineering, reflecting both practical systems engineering and long-term product maintenance skills. Known for turning complex industrial communication requirements into reliable deployed systems, he thrives on bridging embedded/enterprise integration with maintainable software.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, 12, Matric, 12 at King Edward High School (Matatliele)N.Dip Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, N.Dip Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering at Central University of Technology, Free State
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (106)
charts10
dotnet10
rabbitmq10
helm10
kubernetes10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
sdk9
cli9
package-manager9
client-library8
api8
middleware8
golang8
k8s8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IoT-nxt/azure-pipelines-vals-installer
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Azure Pipelines task to install the vals cli tool.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 7 PRs in 2 months
mot256/rabbitmq-dotnet-client
Feb 2022 - May 2022
RabbitMQ .NET client for .NET Standard 2.0+ and .NET 4.6.1+
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
dotnetmasstransitnet-standardcsharpdotnetcore
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