Gerard Wolfaardt
Co-founder & Principal Consultant at The Data Collective
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGerard Wolfaardt is a data and analytics leader with over two decades of experience who now co-founded The Data Collective to help organisations turn complex data into actionable insight. He specialises in Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks and has led large cloud BI transformations delivering scalable platforms for clients from education and agriculture to financial services. Gerard has a strong track record as a solution architect and technical lead—designing platforms that integrated hundreds of source systems and supported tens of thousands of users. Known for blending practical engineering with a playful, user-focused approach to data, he favours solutions that balance flexibility, value and operational robustness. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he brings both consulting rigor from firms like Avanade and hands-on delivery experience across the public and private sectors.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hons B.Sc, Computer Science and Information Systems, Hons B.Sc, Computer Science and Information Systems at North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (36)
architecture9
spark9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
azure-resource-manager9
azure9
resource-manager9
arm8
storage8
analytics8
delta-lake7
microsoft7
microsoft-azure7
acid7
big-data7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gerardwolf/blog
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
gerardwolf/test
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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