Jaco Botha
Founder & Managing Director at DevOptix
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJaco Botha is a founder and experienced engineering leader who builds modern, outcome-focused software consultancies and high-performance teams across Europe and South Africa. With over a decade in hands‑on development and fifteen years of technical leadership, he has led global backend engineering at enterprise fintechs and steered platform modernisations, event-driven architectures, and applied AI projects that shortened loan decisioning to minutes. He combines strategic product thinking with day‑to‑day technical ownership, frequently embedding senior engineers or full delivery teams to own outcomes end-to-end. Jaco emphasises pragmatic modernisation — reducing legacy complexity rather than layering on more — and focuses on cloud platforms that are observable, cost-aware, and resilient. Fluent in operating between executive strategy and code-level implementation, he also leverages an international talent strategy that blends strong South African engineering culture with Dutch and English client environments. His consultancy model is distinguished by SNA certification and a bias for measurable business impact over mere resource provision.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusHigher National Diploma Information Technology, Higher National Diploma Information Technology at London School of Business and Management
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (80)
api-client10
swagger10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
rest-api10
openapi10
stubs10
api10
sdk10
rest10
api-server10
spec10
restful-api10
generator10
docker-build9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Backbase/event-emitter
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 6 months
event-emittereventscloudeventsbrokertesting
Backbase/workflows
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Reusable GitHub Actions Workflows for Backbase Opensource
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
backbaseworkflowsreusableartifactworkflow
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