Gregory Havenga
Senior Backend Developer at GitLab
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Havenga is a Staff Backend Engineer based in the Netherlands with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade APIs and Ruby on Rails applications across telecoms and security domains. A WeThinkCode_ alumnus selected from 30,000 applicants, he brings a pragmatic generalist mindset—comfortable shipping Rails-era tooling while leaning into modern infrastructure like Terraform. At F-Secure/MWR and now GitLab he has delivered resilient backend systems that balance security posture with operational efficiency, including bespoke telecom APN solutions that reduced costs and enabled new managed services. Known as an unapologetic Ruby enthusiast and Terraform power-user, he combines hands-on implementation with system-level thinking to drive scalable, auditable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at WeThinkCode_A-, A- at Edenglen High School
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
analyzer7
linter7
factory-bot6
ruby-on-rails6
tdd6
ruby6
factory6
code-analyzer5
formatter5
rubocop5
static-code-analysis5
static-analysis4
api3
rest3
rest-api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OddballGreg/oddballgreg.github.io
Aug 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
OddballGreg/generalized_api
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
A JSON API protocol to quickly and DRYly expose an applications models in a consistent way.
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 11 months
apiconsistentexposerestrest-api
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