Niel Buys
DevOps Engineer at Ncomp.co.za
Paarl, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorNiel Buys is a DevOps engineer with 10 years of experience who designs and maintains secure, scalable production environments for web and desktop applications. At Vinpro he drives DevOps, QA and release management for WineMS—modernizing a legacy VB6 product into a .NET 6/ASP.NET Core/React stack while provisioning mixed Windows and Linux infrastructure and SQL systems. He combines hands-on scripting and tooling with automation of pipelines, code review practices, and custom utilities that streamline deployments and harden security. As founder of Ncomp.co.za he publishes open-source tools like a POS system and form builder, demonstrating a long-running commitment to practical, accessible software. Based in Paarl, South Africa, he balances infrastructure depth with product-focused releases that keep complex cellar-management workflows reliable and compliant.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
75reputation
1.3mreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (94)
cms10
php-library10
qt10
git-addons10
rebase10
release-it10
joomla10
php10
content-management10
linux9
phpmailer9
php-framework9
swift9
windows9
excel9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NielBuys/gam-pivot
Dec 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 18 pushes, 8 tags in 4 years 10 months
phppivot-tables
NielBuys/CodeIgniter
Mar 2023 - Jun 2026
Fork of CodeIgniter 3 (PHP 8.5 ready)
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 3 years 3 months
codeigniterphp
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