Hein Hanekom
CEO & Full Stack Developer at Sinov8 - Software Solutions
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolHein Hanekom is a CEO and full-stack developer with nine years' experience building and scaling SaaS products for the real estate sector from a bootstrap startup in the Western Cape. As co-founder of Sinov8, he led a ground-up pivot to PHP/Laravel, rebuilt inspection and rental management systems, and launched WeconnectU Rams—now used by over 400 companies in South Africa. He combines customer-facing rental operations expertise with hands-on backend API and product development, which helps him translate operational pain points into scalable software. Day-to-day he balances company leadership, hiring, partnerships and coding, and has a track record of turning limited resources into rapid product adoption. Notably, his background in contract and tenancy management informs product decisions, giving him an edge in building practical, compliance-aware property tech.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School DF MalanBCOMM Management Science, BCOMM Management Science at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (24)
laravel9
php8
inspect6
logging5
lumen5
observer5
eloquent5
debug4
operation4
history4
audit4
laravel-package4
haiku4
auditing4
revision3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HeinHanekom/buildablog
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Learning to build a blog in php and laravel
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
laravelphp
HeinHanekom/Sinov8Test
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 3 branches in 4 months
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