Gideon Van Der Merwe
Build Manager at Symplexity
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolGideon Van Der Merwe is a Build Manager based in Gauteng, South Africa, with 13 years of professional experience and a career rooted in database and systems work dating back to the early 1990s. He specializes in Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL, performance tuning, profiling, and indexing) and has progressed from hands-on specialist roles to managing build processes at Symplexity. His background spans systems analysis, senior SQL development, and data architecture, giving him strong end-to-end insight into how code, builds, and database performance interact. Gideon favors GitLab for version control and brings practical, operations-minded perspective to build reliability and deployment optimization. With a B.Com in Computer Science and Industrial Psychology, he combines technical depth with an appreciation for team dynamics and process improvement. He is notable for translating long-term, legacy-system experience into pragmatic performance and build strategies for modern delivery pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com, Computer Science, Industrial Psychology, B.Com, Computer Science, Industrial Psychology at University of Port ElizabethMatric, Maths, Physics, English, Afrikaans, Economics, History, Matric, Maths, Physics, English, Afrikaans, Economics, History at Framesby High School
English, Afrikaans, Xhosa
Stackoverflow
2,214reputation
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37answers
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Github Skills (142)
cli9
outlook9
windows9
gmail9
firebase9
smart-table9
hipchat9
android9
filter9
client-library8
angular8
firebase-admin8
nuxt-module8
csv-parsing8
google-cloud-platform8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dieucay555/CompassApp
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 3 months
janpansa/bspwm
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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