Peter Van Der Walt
Contractor at Ooznest Ltd
Camdeboo Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Van Der Walt is a multidisciplinary contractor with over two decades of hands‑on experience spanning IT infrastructure, electronics, mechanical design, CAD and firmware/software development. He has led product development, manufacturing coordination and compliance for commercial CNC and electronics products while also shipping web and desktop tools like OpenBuilds CAM and CONTROL. Equally comfortable in firmware (grbl/grblHAL), Node.js/Electron apps and PHP/MySQL web platforms, he combines embedded systems know‑how with DevOps and CI/CD experience. Past roles range from enterprise systems engineering and 24/7 critical support to running an open‑hardware business that produced kits, documentation and community resources. An active contributor to OpenBuilds CAM front‑end improvements, he brings practical CNC UX insight that informs both hardware and software design. Based in Camdeboo, South Africa, he’s passionate about automation, open source and applying emerging AI/ML techniques to maker and manufacturing workflows.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, 12, Matric, 12 at Fraserburg High School
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
web-development10
ui-design9
interface-design9
html9
user-interface9
css8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBuilds/OpenBuilds-CAM
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Online CNC CAM System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:412 commits, 5 PRs, 428 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter made several test commits related to "gh-pages" deployment, indicating a focus on integrating the project with a web hosting or deployment platform. The user also modified the `index.html` file and added a "text" widget, likely indicating development of user interface components. Further commits show modifications to the JavaScript code, including adding features such as "showing toolpath" or "enabling drag and drop" and some enhancements on the settings.
svggrblcamjavascript3d-printer
OpenBuilds/firmware
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 61 commits, 60 pushes in 2 years
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