Kobus Joubert
Senior Software Engineer at Zipchat
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolKobus Joubert is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, Hotwire (Turbo/Stimulus), and API-driven microservices. He excels at keeping codebases clean, modular and consistent across teams, with a strong belief in DRY principles and thoughtful naming as a means to long-term maintainability. Kobus has evolved legacy monoliths into smaller Rails 7 services and prefers server-driven interactivity over heavy frontend frameworks to avoid complex state synchronization. He has led small cross-functional teams as a Technical Lead and now contributes at Zipchat, bringing pragmatic architecture and hands-on implementation together. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he pairs deep Rails expertise with a curiosity for emerging RPC technologies like gRPC. An early background across Drupal, WordPress and low-level data processing gives him a practical appreciation for both front-end polish and backend robustness.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Science Technical Drawing Geography English Afrikaans, Mathematics Science Technical Drawing Geography English Afrikaans at Oos Moot HighInformation Systems - Software Development Diploma C++ VB.NET SQL Server 2000 Dynamic HTML Linux Perl, Information Systems - Software Development Diploma C++ VB.NET SQL Server 2000 Dynamic HTML Linux Perl at CTIConstruction Technology Certificate Diploma, Construction Technology Certificate Diploma at Intec CollegeProfessional Health and Fitness Diploma Anatomy Nutrition Cardiorespiratory Fitness Strength Training Exercise Programming, Professional Health and Fitness Diploma Anatomy Nutrition Cardiorespiratory Fitness Strength Training Exercise Programming at Reebok
Github Skills (24)
oanda10
ruby-client10
procfile9
sinatra9
api9
materialize8
padrino8
capybara8
foundation8
bootstrap8
bulma7
ruby7
rails7
searchkick6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kobusjoubert/kobusjoubert.github.io
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
kobusjoubert/oanda_api_v20
Jun 2016 - Aug 2021
Ruby client for Oanda API V20
Contributions:61 commits, 11 PRs, 75 pushes in 5 years 3 months
apioanda-api-v20ruby-clientrubyoanda
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