Nicolai Van Niekerk
Software Engineer at Zeal
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolNicolai Van Niekerk is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience delivering full-stack solutions for health insurance, banking and reinsurance clients across globally distributed teams. He blends strong ownership and problem-solving with practical engineering—building React/Node and Angular/Spring Boot platforms that include drag-and-drop underwriting editors and interactive member coverage tools. A proven mentor, he has coached and developed junior engineers while collaborating with partners like Microsoft to prototype cloud services. Now exploring Web3 and DeFi at Zeal, Nicolai pairs a high-achiever mindset with an appreciation that technology is one tool among many for producing auditable, standards-compliant software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 12, High School, 12 at Mokopane Academic School of ExcellenceUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (14)
lottery9
extraction6
whenever5
java4
pybuilder4
titanium4
python4
computer-vision3
ajax3
axios3
xmlhttprequest2
backup2
android-application2
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nicvaniek/Hello-World
Sep 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
Corne-Els/Cos-301-Dodger
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 PRs, 35 pushes, 15 branches in 7 days
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