Geoff Garbers
Senior Software Developer at SolarAfrica Energy
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolGeoff Garbers is a Senior Software Developer based in Cape Town with about 14–15 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile sites, primarily using PHP. He has progressed from web developer roles to senior developer positions at Tencent Africa and now SolarAfrica Energy, bringing experience across media, fintech, and energy sectors. Geoff has led teams, mentored developers, and managed development infrastructure for clients including Computicket, Ster-Kinekor, Media24 and Sony Music, demonstrating a mix of client-facing delivery and engineering stewardship. Comfortable across the full web stack, he pairs practical implementation skills with a knack for instituting development guidelines and maintaining production systems. A Cape Peninsula University of Technology alumnus, he combines local market knowledge with enterprise-scale project experience, and quietly favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions over flashy tech.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma in Multimedia Technology Multimedia Programming Design, National Diploma in Multimedia Technology Multimedia Programming Design at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyWynberg Boys' High School
English
Stackoverflow
579reputation
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18answers
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Github Skills (135)
web-application10
ruby10
google-cloud10
expressive10
simplify10
client-library10
laravel10
api10
application-framework10
foundation10
typescript10
php10
laravel-framework10
linux9
laravel-passport9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
garbetjie/terraform-google-cloud-run
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Terraform module to simplify the creation & management of Cloud Run services on GCP.
Contributions:45 commits, 7 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 1 month
gcpappengineapp-enginecloud-rungcp-cloud-run
garbetjie/http-request-logger
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Middleware for HTTP requests that logs incoming & outgoing requests & responses.
Contributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 10 months
http-requestsloggerincomingloggingmiddleware
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