Kobus Smit
Data Engineer
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, South Africa
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Top SchoolKobus Smit is a pragmatic data engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and architecting financial and government systems, now working in Nedbank CIB after leading payment test automation at Abrantix. He combines deep .NET and cloud expertise with practical full-stack skills—spanning C#, ASP.NET, Blazor, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and Azure—to deliver robust, auditable solutions for EFTPOS, POS and loan origination systems. A trusted problem-solver, he has repeatedly translated complex domain requirements into automated, production-ready software and test frameworks. His background includes founding a software consultancy, developing cryptocurrency accounting tools, and shipping high-performance banking information systems across multiple African markets. Based in Newcastle-Maitland, he brings both engineering leadership and a hands-on mindset to fast-changing, regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of South AfricaBCom Informatics, BCom Informatics at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
1,775reputation
217kreached
21answers
10questions
Github Skills (143)
timeseries-database10
uploading10
postgresql10
realtime10
web-application10
windows10
swagger10
security10
malware10
postgresql-extension10
file-upload10
profiling10
dto10
aurelia10
backend10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kobus-Smit/revenj-examples
Oct 2017 - Jan 2024
Revenj/DSL Platform C# examples and experiments
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
Kobus-Smit/dsl-compiler-client
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
DSL Platform - compiler clients
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
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