Gerrie Crafford
Software Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolGerrie Crafford is a software engineer based in Pretoria with two years of professional experience building modular, testable systems across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust and C-family languages. He has designed and implemented end-to-end platforms—spanning React frontends, Express/Django backends, PostgreSQL databases and Dockerized compute services—focused on performance, scalability and maintainability. At CSIR he improved query performance with thoughtful schema and indexing, introduced CI/CD pipelines to make deployments robust, and wrapped external simulation and control systems to run queued compute jobs reliably. He holds an MS in Computer Science with work in reinforcement learning and robotics integration, and brings both research rigour and production discipline to engineering problems. Gerrie favors simple, elegant solutions and mentoring peers, having given internal talks and driven code-review practices to raise team quality.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of the WitwatersrandUniversity of Pretoria
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Github Skills (9)
honeypot10
cryptography9
security9
modular9
cybersecurity9
console7
api7
entity-framework6
docker4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thinkst/canarytokens
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Canarytokens helps track activity and actions on your network.
Contributions:19 reviews, 33 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 5 months
thinkst/canarytools-docs
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Documentation for the Canary Console API
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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