Marius Ackerman
Senior Software Engineer at Simera Sense
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMarius Ackerman is a senior software engineer based in the Western Cape with a decade of focused experience and a long career history stretching back to early development and academic research. He combines hands-on engineering and architectural leadership, having held CTO and technical director roles as well as founding and consulting positions that span startups and scale-up technology firms. Currently building a new system at Simera Sense, he has a track record of moving from deep technical delivery to strategic technology stewardship. His academic foundation—an MSc (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Stellenbosch—underscores a rigorous, research-minded approach to problem solving. Notably, Marius has repeatedly shifted between independent consulting and executive roles, suggesting a talent for both rapid prototyping and long-term system design.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Cum Laude, MSc, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch UniversityBSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Port Elizabeth
Github Skills (27)
scanner10
yacc10
parser10
lexer10
matching10
grammars10
compiler-construction10
parser-generator10
golang10
lex10
rust-lang9
python9
go9
rust9
webgpu7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goccmack/beattrack
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Track the beat in music
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
beatmusicmusic-playerspotify
goccmack/gogll
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Generates generalised LL (GLL) and reduced size LR(1) parsers with matching lexers
Contributions:236 commits, 9 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 6 months
parserscompiler-frontendparsercontext-free-grammarsyacc
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