Louise Van Der Lith
Lead Software Engineer at Cinque
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolLouise Van Der Lith is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable systems, leading teams, and founding technical ventures from Gauteng, South Africa. She has progressed from junior roles to technical leadership and co-founding a company, designing core frameworks such as a rules engine for medical billing and an object-oriented database (Husk DB-engine). Known for disciplined delivery and deep curiosity, she repeatedly focuses on architecture, reuse, and performance—creating nuget repositories, ETL frameworks, and Kibana/Elasticsearch visualizations. Louise pairs entrepreneurial grit with a willingness to go the extra mile, often taking after-hours responsibility to meet deadlines and mentor peers. Her background spans full lifecycle development, client-facing integrations, and operational deployment, giving her both product and infrastructure fluency. Outside the job titles, she consistently emphasizes learning and craftsmanship, turning complex requirements into maintainable, high-quality solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bothaville HighschoolMatric Certificate, Matric Certificate at Parys HighschoolMCPD, Computer Software Engineering, MCPD, Computer Software Engineering at ww.IT-IQ Training & Solutions
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (23)
vin10
decoder9
oauth2-provider8
oauth2-client7
oauth2-server7
oauth7
database6
golang5
beego5
swagger5
programming-language5
automation4
monorepo4
go3
parse3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
louisevanderlith/vin
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
Vehicle Database and VIN Decoder
Contributions:70 commits, 66 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
vinvin-decoderdecodervehicledatabase
louisevanderlith/droxolite
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Droxolite is the glue used to build distributed applications.
Contributions:357 pushes, 2 branches, 173 tags in 1 year 5 months
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