Pieter Rautenbach
Engineering Director For Merchant, Business Systems And Machine Learning at takealot.com
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorPieter Rautenbach is an engineering director with over a decade of hands-on leadership experience building large-scale, high-concurrency systems across e-commerce, machine learning, social and location services. At Takealot he leads 13 teams (60 people), driving architecture, ML platforms, catalogue and retail operations, and shifting organisations toward agile, automated and data-driven practices. He combines deep technical skills in distributed systems and DSP/ML with business acumen—shaping product roadmaps, MDM and B2B integrations while participating in acquisitions and due diligence. Known for mentoring engineers and creating inclusive, trust-based teams, he also runs graduate hiring programs and established a major regional engineering hub. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with creativity and endurance—mountain biking, running and performing music—bringing a practical, human-centered perspective to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (172)
lit-element10
lan10
python10
lollipop10
apple-tv10
automation10
media-player10
excel10
home-assistant10
closedxml10
mqtt10
polymer10
sensor10
home-automation10
xlsx10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
parautenbach/Vodacom-Data-Usage
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
parautenbach/hass-shairport-sync
Sep 2020 - May 2022
A custom media player for Home Assistant that allows you to control and get updates from a Shairport Sync installation using MQTT.
Contributions:7 releases, 4 reviews, 59 commits in 1 year 8 months
syncairplayassistantshairportmqtt
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