Summary
Olaus Cloete is a software designer with eight years' experience building and testing low-level networking firmware and tools, currently working at HPE Aruba Networking. He brings strong C, Python and embedded-systems skills developed at Netronome—where he built test infrastructure (NTI) and firmware for packet ordering and P4-related projects—and production experience at takealot.com and Amber Group. Trained as an electrical and electronic engineer, he blends hardware-aware design with software testing and automation, often working close to toolchains, assemblers and custom compilers. Comfortable across Bash, Java and database-backed test systems, he thrives on improving reliability of complex network platforms. A detail-oriented engineer from Gauteng, he has a track record of turning specialized networking research and hardware constraints into repeatable, production-ready test suites and firmware.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at High School Garsfontein
University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans