Petrus Theron
Staff Engineer at Peach Payments
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolPetrus Theron is a Staff Engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of software experience and 14 years in senior engineering and CTO roles across South Africa. He builds pragmatic, high-performance systems—ranging from ISO8583 payments switches benchmarked at thousands of requests/sec to cloud control planes and scalable authorization with SpiceDB—often using Clojure and DynamoDB. As a serial founder and former CTO, he has repeatedly taken greenfield products to acquisition or production, including ERP software that supported rapid retail expansion and a domain registrar built from scratch. Based in the Western Cape, he blends embedded hardware work (battery monitoring and OTA firmware) with cloud-native architecture, reflecting a rare full-stack to firmware breadth. Notably, he converts contract engagements into long-term leadership, demonstrating both delivery focus and durable client trust.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
DF Malan High SchoolElectronic Engineering with Computer Science (BIng E&E w/CS), Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering with Computer Science (BIng E&E w/CS), Electronic Engineering, Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, clojure
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Github Skills (200)
yum10
bug-tracker10
mfcc10
future10
entitlements10
ring10
vagrant10
visualization10
popup10
tooltip10
clojurescript10
messaging10
windows10
broker10
message-queue10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
codebridge-za/codebridge.co.za
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
theronic/cljs-snake
Aug 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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