James Silberbauer
Director at NoSoft
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Silberbauer is a pragmatic technology director and hands-on web developer with over 11 years of professional experience and a software career stretching back to the 1980s. He leads NoSoft, building practical solutions for fruit and vegetable packhouses, while running Silberbauer Computing to deliver user-focused web applications. James combines legacy mainframe and COBOL-era expertise with modern backend work—he contributed deparsing improvements to the well-regarded pganalyze/pg_query project, adding support for nuanced SQL constructs. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he excels at turning complex domain requirements into reliable, maintainable systems and brings a depth of institutional knowledge rarely seen in contemporary web teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer programming, Computer programming at WS&LBSc (incomplete), Computer science, Maths, Accounting, Physics & Philosophy, BSc (incomplete), Computer science, Maths, Accounting, Physics & Philosophy at University of Cape TownSt Andrews
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
sql10
postgresql9
rspec8
debugging6
merge6
eclipse6
mercurial6
edt6
google-app-engine6
jsp6
scala6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pganalyze/pg_query
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
Ruby extension to parse, deparse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 6 comments in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `pg_query` project by implementing and improving the deparsing functionality. They focused on adding support for various SQL constructs such as LIMIT, OFFSET, FLOAT, BETWEEN, NULLIF, and BooleanTest expressions. The user's work involved modifying the `lib/pg_query/deparse.rb` and `spec/lib/pg_query/deparse_spec.rb` files to handle new SQL features and ensure correct deparsing behavior.
postgresqlquery-parserrubysql
NoSoft-SA/shared_config
Dec 2018 - Jun 2024
Configuration for labels shared over DRb
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
golangdrb
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