Raoul Snyman
Owner at @Sum Technology
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRaoul Snyman is an entrepreneur and IT generalist with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning IT infrastructure, support, and distribution operations in South Africa. He built and managed IT environments from legacy Netware and Exchange servers to modern end-user support, then transitioned to scale logistics at HomeChoice where he launched multiple regional distribution outlets and an owner-driver delivery scheme. Since 2013 he runs Sum Technology, providing IT services to SMBs while also operating a niche games-console sales and rental business. An active open-source contributor, he has improved integration testing and test utilities for the ManageIQ project, demonstrating attention to reliability and automation beyond day-to-day operations. Pragmatic and resourceful, Raoul blends technical troubleshooting with operational leadership and a track record of creating practical, locally relevant solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
National certificate - Internal Auditing, Internal Auditing, National certificate - Internal Auditing, Internal Auditing at Technicon PretoriaVentersdorp High SchoolHighschool Grenswag, Rustenburg
Github Skills (5)
manageiq10
pytest10
python10
ssh10
testing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/integration_tests
May 2017 - Feb 2018
ManageIQ integration tests
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Raoul primarily contributed to improving the integration tests for the ManageIQ project. Their work included refactoring the code to use SSHClient as a context manager, enhancing the cleanup of SSH connections, and addressing linting and refactoring-related issues. Furthermore, the user made significant changes to test utilities by updating their code. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the reliability of the testing infrastructure.
pythontestingintegration-testspytestmanageiq
rsnyman/widgetastic.patternfly4
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Library of Patternfly v4 widgets for Widgetastic.
Contributions:21 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
widgetwidgetasticpatternflywidgetsflutter
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