Larry Botha
CTO At Smileway at Fixate
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Botha is a pragmatic technology leader and startup founder with 12 years of experience building web-first products and leading engineering teams as CTO of Smileway and Managing Director of Fixate. He blends hands-on front-end engineering—demonstrated by contributions to the two.js rendering library—with strategic product and company-building experience from co-founding Jurisfy and running Bondi Botha Development. Trained in mathematics and psychology, he brings a systems-thinking mindset and human-centered approach to engineering decisions, and he’s unapologetically old-school (yes, he uses Vim). A former podcast host who interviewed global software thinkers, he values responsibility, sustainability, and doing work “properly,” a principle he attributes to his father.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
svg10
2d10
canvas9
rendering-engine9
html8
mochajs6
pseudo-elements6
css6
unit-testing6
enzyme6
sinon6
webkit6
react6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jonobr1/two.js
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
A renderer agnostic two-dimensional drawing api for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to the web-based two-dimensional drawing API. Their work focused on fixing issues and improving the functionality of the rendering process, particularly in the SVG renderer. The commits reflect efforts to ensure the API functions correctly across different environments, addressing potential errors within the rendering pipeline and enhancing the overall stability of the project. The user's changes indicate a focus on refining the core drawing and rendering capabilities of the library.
renderagnostic2dhtml5rasterizer
larrybotha/pirple-nodejs-master-class
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Exercises, notes, and annotations for Pirple's NodeJs Master Class
Contributions:498 commits, 39 PRs, 189 pushes in 3 years 6 months
notespirpleannotationsjavascriptmaster
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