Matthew Van Niekerk
Embedded Software Engineer at Metacom
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Van Niekerk is an Embedded Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, performance-focused systems across embedded and cloud domains. He currently develops embedded solutions at Metacom and previously accelerated AWS internal log processing by 50x while shifting it to real-time, and built trading dashboards and algorithms for arbitrage at Invictus Capital. A USC graduate who splits his time between code and music, he brings a pragmatic blend of low-level systems thinking and data-driven software design. Based in Cape Town, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready software and enjoys applying creative problem-solving from his musical practice to engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Physics at University of Cape Town
Japanese
Github Skills (18)
rest-server8
capstone7
https-server7
rest-api5
ipv65
restful-api5
http-server4
rest4
c-library4
hosting4
cpp3
embedded3
shoutcast3
cross-platform3
cpp-library3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mattvanniekerk/itp303
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 1 month
vanniekerk/hw1
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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