Philip Joubert
CEO & Founder at Magic Safari
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Joubert is a serial entrepreneur and technology founder with 12 years of experience building startups from the ground up across the Western Cape and global markets. He co-founded OfferZen and JourneyApps and was a partner at FireID, helping launch notable fintech, security, and marketplace companies including SnapScan, Luno and Root. As CEO & Founder of Magic Safari, he continues to blend product-led engineering with go-to-market strategy, focusing on rapid, practical solutions for enterprise and consumer problems. Trained as an industrial engineer at Stellenbosch University, he brings a systems-thinking approach to scaling teams, processes and platforms. Philip’s track record shows a bias for starting companies that convert complex operational workflows into simple, deployable products — often turning months of work into days with pragmatic tooling. He’s driven by building repeatable venture playbooks and incubating ideas that others in the region have turned into category-leading businesses.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Industrial Engineering, BEng Industrial Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversitySomerset College
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (5)
middleman6
glossary5
ruby3
documentation3
device-management2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
philipjoubert/greenplan
Dec 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
philipjoubert/blog
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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