Ian Roberts
Chief Operations Officer
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolIan Roberts is a technology executive and entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on software development and architecture experience, currently serving as Chief Operations Officer at Tangent Solutions. With a BSc (IS) Honours from Rhodes University and a career spanning financial, retail, and manufacturing sectors, he has progressed from business analyst and developer to CTO-level strategic leadership. He founded Tangent Solutions in 2010 and has driven e‑commerce and mobile initiatives in South Africa, focusing on long-term technology strategy, R&D, and pragmatic implementation of new technologies. Known as a conceptual thinker who pairs entrepreneurial instincts with developer roots, he champions technology as a means to improve efficiency and enable better software practices.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Uplands CollegeBSC(IS) Honours, Information Systems and Computer Science, BSC(IS) Honours, Information Systems and Computer Science at Rhodes University
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
django-rest-framework6
angularjs6
python6
django6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
admin6
nodejs5
testing5
browser4
kite2
sdk2
time-tracking2
php2
powerbi2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alongordon/toggle-service
Sep 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 8 months
TangentMicroServices/HoursService-WebClient
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:14 PRs, 51 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
callingauthenticationangularwith-service
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