Gareth Stephenson is a software engineer with a decade of practical experience spanning developer, team lead and CTO roles across South Africa, currently building products at Matter Industries. He blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and delivery management, having led teams at Platform45 and IQbusiness and spoken widely at conferences and user groups. Gareth pairs academic rigor—a Master of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering and published research on mob programming—with a pragmatic, boots-on-the-ground career that began straight out of school. He has a knack for creative hardware-software projects, including Raspberry Pi cluster systems used in demos and by IBM Research Africa, and has presented that work at DevConf. Known as a coach and facilitator, he focuses on enabling teams to learn and communicate more effectively while shipping reliable software.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (Electrical), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (Electrical), Computer Software Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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