Pieter Louw
Senior Software Developer at Linkly
Johannesburg, Gauteng, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter Louw is a Senior Software Developer with 10+ years’ experience specializing in Go, system design and payments (card/EFTPOS) across embedded POS and server-side domains. Based in Johannesburg and now working at Linkly, he has a long track record building payment terminals and backend systems, previously leading engineering efforts at Resonance Australia and Uplink Technologies. He brings deep low-level expertise in C/C++ and Delphi plus modern services development in Go, pairing protocol-level knowledge with practical system administration on Linux. Known for reliably shipping production payment integrations, he combines decades of hands-on coding with design and analysis skills that surface in robust, secure transaction systems. An electrical engineering and computer science-trained engineer, Pieter’s profile reflects a rare blend of embedded payments experience and cloud-connected services.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma: Electrical Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, National Diploma: Electrical Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at UNISAComputer Science Diploma. Internet Development Specialist Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science Diploma. Internet Development Specialist Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at CTI Pretoria
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (102)
reverse-proxy10
github10
http10
swagger10
proxy10
caddy10
security10
caddyserver10
extensible10
webserver10
rest-api10
openapi10
acme10
golang10
grpc10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pieterlouw/caddy-grpc
May 2017 - Jul 2019
grpc plugin for Caddy Server
Contributions:5 releases, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 2 months
golangprotobufgrpccaddy-servercaddy
pieterlouw/caddy-net
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Proxy server type for Caddy server (https://github.com/mholt/caddy)
Contributions:5 releases, 44 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
proxy-servercaddyserverproxyproxy-protocolcaddy-server
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