Francois Theron
Senior Full Stack Engineer at LayUp Technologies
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolFrancois Theron is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient systems and leading engineering teams from Western Cape, South Africa. He has driven architecture and delivery at startups and banks, notably reducing hosting costs by 40% through pragmatic AWS design and shifting release cadence from monthly to weekly with improved CI/CD and observability. Comfortable across backend, frontend, DevOps and infra, he’s implemented serverless Lambdas, EC2 workflows, Datadog/Sentry monitoring, and automated pipelines to achieve sub‑hour MTR for most incidents. A thoughtful mentor and process owner, Francois also institutionalises onboarding, documentation and agile ways of working to accelerate team velocity. His background in payments at Capitec gives him deep domain knowledge in EFT/SWIFT flows, which he pairs with modern cloud patterns to deliver dependable financial services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Informatics, Bachelor of Science Informatics at University of South Africa (UNISA)Higher Certificate Information Technology (Information Systems), Higher Certificate Information Technology (Information Systems) at CTI Education GroupUniversity of South AfricaHigh School, High School at De Kuilen
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (34)
prettier-eslint7
typescript-eslint7
lint-staged6
husky6
boilerplate5
netlify5
cron4
scheduled-tasks4
vscode4
postcss4
css4
nfc4
tailwind4
kotlin4
tailwindcss4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FTheron/NfcCashlessPayments
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
A android point of sale application. That uses NFC technology to store value.
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 months
point-of-salesaleandroidpointkotlin
FTheron/LearningHub
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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