Norby Baruani
Technical Lead at Ringier South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolNorby Baruani is a Technical Lead with eight years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently directing platform and framework efforts at Ringier South Africa. He brings a backend-first mindset while retaining full-stack fluency, having led framework and API-driven service development and shipped web applications across multiple roles. Norby has progressed from PHP development and early internships to senior and leadership positions, demonstrating steady technical growth and ownership of delivery. Based in the Western Cape, he consistently upskills and enjoys tackling client-side challenges, blending practical engineering with a curiosity for new tools and patterns. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into increasing leadership while remaining an active, code-focused engineer.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
windsor highNational Diploma, Computer System, National Diploma, Computer System at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
English, French
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Github Skills (77)
vote10
laravel10
oop10
transition10
aws-timestream10
bootstrap10
laravel-authentication9
horizon9
php9
dynamodb8
state-management8
passwordless-authentication7
api7
monitor7
jetstream7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
norbybaru/docker-php-alpine
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Docker PHP FPM ALPINE image
Contributions:17 PRs, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 8 months
dockerfiledocker-imagealpine-imagephpphp-fpm
norbybaru/modularize
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Generates Laravel modules
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 years 11 months
laravelmodularizemodule-patternphp
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