Kevin Ashton
Senior Software Engineer at Equal Experts
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ashton is a Senior Software Engineer based in Gauteng, South Africa, with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, high-performance data solutions, and SaaS platforms using F#, C#, Postgres and web technologies. He has held technical leadership roles from Chief Architect to senior developer, leading cross-border teams and shaping CI/CD and cloud hosting for production SaaS. Kevin blends hands-on development with architecture work—designing a data warehouse, integrating diverse external systems (IoT, telephony, CRM) and authoring automated services in F#. An active open-source contributor, he improved F# semantic and preprocessor highlighting in the widely used MonoDevelop IDE, showing deep language and tooling knowledge. Practical, mentor-minded and detail-oriented, he often surfaces subtle language and tooling edge cases to improve reliability across stacks.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
IEB Matric, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, IEB Matric, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Summit College
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
preprocessing10
preprocess10
ide10
dotnet-new10
c-preprocessor10
dotnet10
directives10
preprocessor10
fsharp10
csharp10
syntax-highlighting10
directive10
named-pipes6
asp-net6
wcf6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mono/monodevelop
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the F# syntax highlighting capabilities within the MonoDevelop IDE. Their contributions involved fixing semantic highlighting issues, and string handling, and improving preprocessor directives. The user implemented several features to improve highlighting accuracy and address bugs. The user's work demonstrates a solid understanding of F# language features and the MonoDevelop's syntax highlighting engine.
dotnetrevit-apimonomonodevelopcsharp
NamelessInteractive/NamelessInteractive.FSharp
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
fsharpdotnetcsharp
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