Gary De Beer
Director Of Product Engineering at One37 ID
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolGary De Beer is a Director of Product Engineering with nearly three decades of hands-on IT experience and nine years focused on product engineering leadership, currently building self-sovereign identity platforms and smooth user experiences at One37 ID. He blends deep systems and infrastructure knowledge—from networking and mainframes to modern containerized cloud deployments—with full-stack development skills (Angular, Ionic, React Native, .NET, Node.js) and CI/CD pipelines across GitLab/GitHub. An advocate for responsible identity ecosystems, he volunteers as Vice-Chair of the DIACC Trust Framework Expert Committee and has led SSI efforts in banking consortia, translating policy into practical, auditable architectures. Comfortable wearing many hats in startups, he still dives into code, mentors engineers in SSI concepts, and oversees production reliability and automation. Outside work he’s a maker at heart who enjoys board games and home automation tinkering, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that informs his engineering approach.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Exemption, 2 Distinctions, Matric Exemption, 2 Distinctions at Queensburgh Boys High SchoolNDip Eng., Electrical Engineering (Light Current), NDip Eng., Electrical Engineering (Light Current) at Durban Institute of Technology
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (44)
hyperledger8
verifiable-credentials8
hyperledger-indy7
uport7
ssi7
decentralized-identity7
k8s6
k3d5
kubelet5
blockchain5
ethereum5
aries5
solidity5
kubernetes5
k3s4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
safbc/Hyperledger
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
safbc/Chaincore
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:95 commits, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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