Ian Petzer
Chief Technical Officer at Timbuktu Travel
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolIan Petzer is a Chief Technical Officer with 13 years of experience building and coordinating multi-stack technology teams across the finance and media-adjacent travel sector. At Timbuktu Travel he leads UX, onsite and remote engineering efforts while remaining a hands-on developer, shaping systems that let guests design bespoke trips and connect with local experts. Trained as an electronic engineer (BScEng) from the University of Natal/Kwazulu-Natal, he blends hardware-rooted analytical rigor with pragmatic software architecture. He excels at translating strategic product goals into coordinated engineering roadmaps and operational delivery across distributed teams. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, Ian brings deep domain familiarity in travel tech and a proven knack for aligning user experience, platform architecture and team execution. A practical technologist by inclination, he routinely balances high-level architecture with day-to-day coding and mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
BscEng, Electronic engineering, BscEng, Electronic engineering at University of Natal - DurbanB.Sc.Eng, Electronic Engineering, B.Sc.Eng, Electronic Engineering at University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Github Skills (104)
decorators9
ruby9
ember-cli9
activeadmin9
emberjs9
ember-addon9
arbre9
rails9
json-api9
command-line-utility9
paypal8
api8
payment8
javascript8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ianpetzer/emberjs_books
May 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 1 month
ianpetzer/ember_phonegap_starter
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 5 months
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