Marinus Swanepoel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, primarily with Ruby on Rails and modern front-end stacks like React and Stimulus/Turbo. He specializes in legacy modernization and multi-tenant platform engineering, having led complex Rails migrations while maintaining 100% uptime and resolving subtle hosting and routing challenges. Comfortable across the stack, he balances pragmatic product-focused decision-making with attention to code readability and maintainability, and has delivered end-to-end products as a self-employed engineer. Recently he’s augmented refactoring and documentation workflows with agentic AI to accelerate high-stakes migrations. Based in Nanaimo, BC, he brings both agency-paced pragmatism and deep backend expertise from roles spanning startups to product platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
B. Fine Arts Studio, B. Fine Arts Studio at The University of Lethbridge
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Marinus Swanepoel - Full Stack Engineer at Self-employed