Jacques Marais
Senior Software Engineering at MoneyBadger
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJacques Marais is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems, large NoSQL migrations, and language tooling from Cape Town. He blends low-level systems work (rack server CPU swaps, firmware and air-gapped deployments) with higher-level software design, having contributed to a Go-based state-machine language (DASL), query language inference, and a major 1000x metadata pipeline speedup. Comfortable across the stack, he prefers avoiding JavaScript yet has shipped frontend work in Elm and multiple crypto wallet integrations for payment platforms. A Cum Laude electrical engineering MEng from Stellenbosch, he thrives in trusting teams where engineers compensate for each other’s weaknesses and enjoys cycling and following court cases in his downtime.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Cum Laude, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
135reputation
42kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (80)
geojson10
javascript10
js10
csv10
topojson10
css10
cdn10
xml10
yaml9
input-mask9
logos9
iconic9
branding9
dedicated9
php9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RapidtSoftware/DatePickr
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
limitsdatepickereventscalendarjquery
JacquesMarais/vtracker
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
mysqltrackerphpaddressmysqli
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