Lucas Dreyer
Senior Software Engineer at Sanlam
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Dreyer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cape Town with over a decade of experience building production-grade infrastructure and platform services for cloud and fintech environments. He has a strong track record at Oracle working on large-scale cloud compute systems—ranging from logging and placement services to VM hardware monitoring and GPU passthrough—and now focuses on foundational services at Sanlam Fintech. Lucas combines low-level systems expertise (C++, hardware control, VHDL/Verilog exposure) with backend and API work in JavaScript/Node and Java, allowing him to move comfortably between embedded, server, and cloud stacks. He has led small technical projects end-to-end, mentored many engineers and interns, and run hiring interviews at scale, reflecting both hands-on delivery and people-first craftsmanship. Holding a Master’s in Computer Science and an engineering degree in Electrical & Electronics with Computer Science, he brings a rare blend of formal academic depth and practical systems engineering. An understated strength is his history of building integration and testing tooling that kept large, distributed teams productive across complex repositories.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Cape TownB. Eng Electrical and Electronics Engineering with Computer Science, B. Eng Electrical and Electronics Engineering with Computer Science at Stellenbosch UniversityTygerberg Hoërskool
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (36)
pathofexile9
orientation8
poe8
deep-learning8
pytorch8
simulate8
world-of-warcraft7
stable-diffusion7
ai7
react7
pointer7
mouse-events7
irc7
lua6
mouse6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
luc4sdreyer/FastInvSqrt-speedtest
Sep 2012 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 11 months
luc4sdreyer/topcoder
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:53 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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