Jan Schoeman
Technical Team Lead at Stitch
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Schoeman is a Technical Team Lead with 11 years of software development experience, known for growing a startup-grade engineering organization into a mature product team. Based in Cape Town, he spent a decade at WhereIsMyTransport building high-performance APIs and graph-driven public transport systems before moving to Stitch to lead technical teams. He focuses on backend architecture, scalable design, and performance-sensitive systems, and enjoys mentoring junior engineers and improving technical processes. Jan's background in computer science and game design gives him a practical, systems-oriented approach to complex problems and a taste for elegant algorithmic solutions. Colleagues know him as "Johannes" in formal settings but "Jan" to teammates—a small sign of his approachable leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Game Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Game Design at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (58)
model-view-controller10
api-platform9
separation-of-concerns9
nuget-package9
postman9
dotnet8
asp-net8
multimodal8
asp-net-core8
nuget8
serializer8
testing7
mvc7
command-line7
cli7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
oofpez/transitime
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
TheTransitClock real-time transit information system
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
transitsystem-informationtransportreal-time
WhereIsMyTransport/OpenTripPlanner
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
An open source multi-modal trip planner
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
multi-sourcemulti-modaltrip-plannermodalplanner
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