Ivan Van Heerden
Software Engineer C , Industrial IoT, OMP, Azure at BMW IT Hub South Africa
South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Van Heerden is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of professional experience specializing in C#, Industrial IoT, OMP and Azure, currently building cloud-native IIoT and microservice solutions for BMW IT Hub South Africa. He blends deep .NET and database skills with hands-on Azure PaaS/IaaS experience to drive Industry 4.0 projects—connecting physical systems, real-time monitoring and autonomous workflows. His background includes SAP ABAP integration and full-stack development at Xpedia, giving him a practical understanding of enterprise integration and legacy-modern transitions. As an Associate Member of the Open Manufacturing Platform he worked on IIoT connectivity standards, reflecting a commitment to interoperable manufacturing systems. Based in South Africa with a Bachelor’s in Information Technology, he stays close to Microsoft’s evolving cloud offerings to accelerate delivery of robust industrial solutions. Colleagues describe him as a delivery-focused engineer who translates complex manufacturing requirements into maintainable, scalable software.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (38)
siemens10
opc10
ddd10
opc-ua10
architecture9
dotnet9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
expressions7
powershell6
infrastructure6
serverless6
yang6
mapper6
azure-devops6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KitsKlip/ExpressionBuilder
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
A package that helps to create expressions dynamically for unknown type
Contributions:31 releases, 1 review, 34 commits in 1 year 4 months
unknownexpressions
KitsKlip/UA-.NETStandard
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
OPC Unified Architecture .NET Standard
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
dotnetdddopc-uanet-standardcsharp
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