Ohan Smit
Software Engineer III - Full-Stack at Capitec
Durbanville, South Africa
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Top SchoolOhan Smit is a seasoned full-stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems and enterprise communication platforms, currently driving a Horizon migration to AWS and developing Capitec’s Conversational Banking stack. He combines deep backend and infrastructure skills (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio) with frontend expertise in TypeScript and React to deliver scalable, production-grade services and a LivePerson replacement. Beyond corporate engineering he contributes to open-source hardware tooling—improving NanoVNA-Saver with Windows COM auto-detection and pip packaging—and pursues advanced RF work as a software-defined radio technologist. His background spans embedded telemetry, Forth and low-level systems to modern microservices, giving him a rare mix of hardware-minded troubleshooting and cloud architecture. Based in Durbanville, South Africa, he brings pragmatic engineering, cross-disciplinary curiosity, and a track record of moving complex migrations and integrations to production with minimal disruption.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of South AfricaRadio Amateur Licence, Radio, Television, and Digital Communication, Amateur Licence, Radio Amateur Licence, Radio, Television, and Digital Communication, Amateur Licence at South African Radio League
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (8)
pyqt10
python10
webradio7
fm-radio7
docker6
identityserver6
asp-net-core6
numpy6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NanoVNA-Saver/nanovna-saver
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
A tool for reading, displaying and saving data from the NanoVNA
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ohan made significant contributions to the NanoVNA-Saver project, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the application's functionality and usability. They implemented automatic COM port detection on Windows, a key improvement for hardware interaction. Furthermore, the user prepared the project for pip packaging, moving files, adding requirements, and setting up the installation process. The user also addressed minor issues like closing all child windows when quitting and localization enhancements.
pythonham-radionanovna-saverdata-savinghamradio
Psynosaur/moRFeusQt
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 52 commits, 68 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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