Johan Du Plessis
Founder CEO at AbilityMate
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Du Plessis is a founder and tech-driven CEO with 10+ years building products that blend engineering, healthcare and social impact from Greater Sydney. He founded AbilityMade to scale clinician capacity through digital fabrication of medical-grade custom orthoses, leading Australia’s first clinical trial of 3D-printed AFOs and winning national disability innovation awards. His background spans embedded systems and RF engineering through to SaaS product leadership at companies like BigCommerce and GoMeeki, giving him rare end-to-end product fluency from hardware to cloud. Johan combines rigorous academic training (MSc Computer Science, BEng Electronic Engineering) with hands-on startup experience raising funds, running incubators and delivering industry-scale deployments. Colleagues describe him as strategic and compassionate—driven to make technology tangible and inclusive for people of all abilities. He often bridges clinical research, fabrication tech and product teams, a skillset that’s not immediately obvious from a typical founder CV.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
TP3Graduate Certificate in Management, Graduate Certificate in Management at Australian Graduate School of Management.B.Eng, Electronic Engineering, B.Eng, Electronic Engineering at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
arduino-ide9
ide9
arduino8
geolocation7
data-access5
json5
http3
mqtt3
rad2
java2
business-application2
data-platform2
master-data-management1
product-management1
mdm1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jhedup/weather-2
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 day
jhedup/weatherbit-experiment-5-wind
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 day
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