Raine Pretorius
Managing Director at Untamed Technologies
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolRaine Pretorius is a solutions architect and founder with six years of software engineering experience, currently building smart home and IoT products as Managing Director of LocknAlert and Solutions Architect at Untamed Tech in Johannesburg. He combines a broad programming background (Python, Flask, SQL, JavaScript, Angular, .NET Core, Java, C++, VBA) with hands-on hardware and embedded intelligence work, delivering Home Assistant integrations, alarm panel interfaces, and gate/garage automation. At Untamed he also leads AI-focused initiatives like object detection and computer vision, bridging physical systems with intelligent automation. He’s taken LocknAlert from prototype to planned production, shaping product and company direction while keeping solutions simple, reliable, and user-focused. Raine’s mix of applied AI, embedded systems, and practical product-building makes him adept at turning everyday problems into elegant, deployable systems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
12, 12 at Helpmekaar KollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
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Github Skills (31)
python10
home-assistant-integration10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
iot10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
signal9
spectra9
homebridge9
firmware9
alarm9
evo9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rainepretorius/core
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
rainepretorius/liamcv
Jul 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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