Mark Holtzhausen
Senior Software Engineer II (SRE) at Superbalist
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolMark Holtzhausen is a Senior Software Engineer II (SRE) with 11 years of professional experience building scalable, fault-tolerant web platforms and APIs from South Africa's Western Cape. He has driven architecture and delivery across ecommerce and high-traffic products—leading client-facing teams and SRE efforts at Superbalist after roles at Spree, Lobster Ink, Mxit and others. His strengths span PHP backend APIs, JavaScript-rich front ends, microservices and real-time analytics, with hands-on exposure to Node.js, ElasticSearch, Varnish and Magento ecosystems. Known for bridging business needs and engineering quality, he consistently advocates peer-reviewed, secure code and deployable microservice packages. An unusual blend of technical and academic background (BSc in Computer Science and Psychology plus earlier theology studies) gives him a pragmatic, human-centered approach to systems and team leadership. He brings a track record of designing interfaces and integration layers that enable transparent Web2.0 mash-ups and measurable operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science and Psychology, BSc Computer Science and Psychology at North-West University / Noordwes-UniversiteitBA Theology, BA Theology at Andrews University
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (153)
visual-studio10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
api9
mamba9
reporter9
text-generation9
cli8
django8
javascript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mholtzhausen/bastr
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
CLI string manipulation utility
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 5 months
manipulationstringstringsstring-manipulationcli-application
mholtzhausen/karma-hipchat-reporter
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
Hipchat Reporter for Karma
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 5 years 7 months
reporterkarmahipchat
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