Luan Van Der Westhuizen
Senior Product Manager at Prisma
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolLuan Van Der Westhuizen is a Senior Product Manager with 8 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and product leadership across fast-moving digital agencies and scale-ups. He progressed from developer to tech lead at Teamgeek, shipping products for major brands, and now drives product strategy at Prisma after roles in engineering management and senior software engineering. Deeply technical, he pairs Python/Django expertise and full-stack development experience with a minimalist design sensibility to deliver elegant user experiences. Known for simplifying complex problems, he builds both “the brains and the face” of products and is comfortable with team workflows using git and mercurial. Based in Cape Town and educated in Software Engineering at the University of Pretoria, he brings a maker’s mindset to product decisions and a playful competitive streak—on and off the foosball table.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering at University of Pretoria 
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (45)
sql-query10
javascript10
sqlite10
postgresql10
query-builder10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
databases10
typescript10
prisma10
sql-server10
orm10
sql10
mssql10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
luanvdw/pdp-comp-test
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
luanvdw/teamgeek
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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