Jaco Jansen
Software Developer at CloudSmiths
North West, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorJaco Jansen is a seasoned software developer with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications, currently delivering Django-based solutions at CloudSmiths. Comfortable as a remote-only professional, he combines strong Python and REST API expertise with practical database design to ship reliable production systems. His background spans startups and established vendors—work ranges from Symfony and Zend PHP to Solr, Google Search Appliance integrations, and mobile/SPA development—giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. Jaco is self-taught on Python and has a track record of adapting quickly to new stacks and industries, including receiving Google Cloud qualification for earlier search work. He excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable code and effective remote collaboration practices. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery, practical architecture choices, and hands-on problem solving across the stack.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
16,996reputation
3.0mreached
124answers
172questions
namespaces
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twig
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flask-sqlalchemy
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
symfony10
matrix-factorization10
python10
nunjucks10
clarifai10
recommender-system10
selenium10
script10
sanic10
react10
instagram10
recommender10
lightfm10
scheduler9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Tjorriemorrie/besetfree
Apr 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 33 PRs, 53 pushes in 9 years 3 months
southsouth-africa
Tjorriemorrie/react-smallgrid
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactdatatable
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