Henco Smith
Senior Software Developer at Verge Technologies (formerly Curo Digital)
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolHenco Smith is a Senior Software Developer with 7 years of hands-on experience building backend systems in C++, Node.js and emerging Go. Based in Pretoria, he has delivered production services across industries—from simulator software and logistics/delivery apps to banking, insurance and bulk messaging platforms—often integrating databases like Cassandra, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB and cloud services such as AWS Lambda and AppSync. He’s repeatedly taken technical ownership roles, leading a small engineering team, running scheduled code reviews and maintaining a self-hosted GitLab CE instance. Notably, his background in simulator engineering gave him deep C++ and systems-level experience before he transitioned to full-stack backend work and scalable distributed architectures.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Secunda HighUniversity of Pretoria
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HencoSmith/graphql-example-go
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
HencoSmith/Hacktoberfest
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
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Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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