Gareth Edwards
Head Of Engineering, Solutions at Ringier South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Edwards is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building market-leading web applications and a decade of progressive technical leadership at Ringier, where he now serves as Head of Engineering, Solutions. He blends hands-on development experience from the early LAMP/ASP days with strategic oversight of search, data and venture CTO responsibilities, delivering product-focused engineering across media and e-commerce. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, Gareth’s career shows a steady trajectory from senior developer roles to shaping engineering strategy and delivery at scale. Notably, he pairs technical depth with a practical business-science background from the University of Cape Town, enabling him to translate complex requirements into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Business Science, Information Systems, Business Science, Information Systems at University of Cape TownEnglish, Physical Science, Mathematics, Chemical Science; Additional Mathematics, Geography, English, Physical Science, Mathematics, Chemical Science; Additional Mathematics, Geography at Institution St. Stithians College
Github Skills (69)
optimus10
crm10
laravel10
hashids10
elearning10
php10
webscraping9
mercadopago9
management9
payment-service9
visa9
sc9
omnipay9
laravel-framework9
paypal8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RingierIMU/sdc-experiments-package
Sep 2020 - Jul 2023
A laravel package for running web experiments
Contributions:4 releases, 19 reviews, 13 PRs in 2 years 11 months
web-experimentsphpendpointlaravel-packagelaravel
lucidlogic/currency_converter
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 PR in 5 years 6 months
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