Neil Stander
Managing Director at Sunsynk South Africa
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarNeil Stander is a seasoned commercial and operations leader with 15 years of experience steering businesses across energy, HVAC, and industrial automation, now serving as Managing Director at Sunsynk South Africa. He combines executive strategy and sales leadership—built through MD and country manager roles at Daikin, Ariston Thermo and Honeywell—with hands-on technical interest in web development and inclusive design. An active open-source contributor, he implemented ActivityPub support in Mastodon, demonstrating backend engineering chops and a focus on interoperable, standards-driven systems. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, Neil blends commercial growth expertise with a practical appreciation for accessibility (a11y) and CSS, an uncommon mix that helps bridge product, customer experience and technical teams.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails10
rails10
activitypub10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
rspec9
microblogging7
social-graph5
social-networking5
webfinger5
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/mastodon
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to implementing ActivityPub support within the Mastodon project. Their work involved adding new endpoints for accounts, outboxes, and notes, enabling read-only access to user data via the ActivityPub protocol. This includes creating controller logic, defining routes, and writing tests to ensure proper functionality, focusing on server-side aspects of the Fediverse integration. They also refactored code and adjusted paging mechanisms to align with the ActivityPub specifications.
social-networkwebfingerpixelfedhosteddocker
evanminto/evanminto-dot-com
Aug 2016 - Aug 2023
Evan Minto's personal website
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
evanreactnextjs
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