Joubert Joubert
Senior Software Engineer at LexisNexis South Africa
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolJoubert Joubert is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently based in Gauteng and driving engineering work at LexisNexis South Africa. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and a background in networking (CCNA/CCNP), blending systems-level understanding with application development. His career progressed through hands-on roles at Kindle Insurance Technologies and Jobox, where he moved from junior to senior responsibilities, delivering reliable backend systems for insurance and web products. An active open-source contributor, he improved weather and navigation data handling in the well-known OpenCPN project, enhancing GRIB plugin accuracy and UI display for nautical users. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs attention to data correctness and unit conversions with clear, user-facing refinements.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National Senior Certificate, Tuks APS score of 37 and Distinction in IT, National Senior Certificate, Tuks APS score of 37 and Distinction in IT at Hoërskool ZwartkopCCNP, CCNP at Cisco Networking AcademyUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (7)
wxwidgets10
grib10
c-language10
weather-data10
cprogramming-language10
gis8
geographical-information-system8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenCPN/OpenCPN
Mar 2013 - Dec 2022
A concise ChartPlotter/Navigator. A cross-platform ship-borne GUI application supporting * GPS/GPDS Postition Input * BSB Raster Chart Display * S57 Vector ENChart Display * AIS Input Decoding * Waypoint Autopilot Navigation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:296 commits, 78 PRs, 27 comments in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Joubert's contributions focused on enhancements and bug fixes within the GRIB plugin, a component of the OpenCPN project, and are directly tied to weather information and nautical navigation. They made improvements related to data handling, the accuracy of data display and the integration of additional data types (like geopotential altitude) and unit conversions. The commits also included a user interface refinements, especially relating to the display of information.
shiprastergarminwaypointgps-tracker
Ptizef/OpenCPN
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
A concise ChartPlotter/Navigator. A cross-platform ship-borne GUI application supporting * GPS/GPDS Postition Input * BSB Raster Chart Display * S57 Vector ENChart Display * AIS Input Decoding * Waypoint Autopilot Navigation
Contributions:1 commit, 177 pushes, 45 branches in 1 day
shiprastergarminwaypointgpx
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