Richard Cochrane
Senior Software Developer at Emerald Life Pty Ltd
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRichard Cochrane is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building and modernising web platforms, currently leading the technical overhaul of a Django-based insurance system. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Python, Django/Pyramid and SQL with a strong focus on reliable, efficient systems and API-driven integrations. As a former engineering manager and development lead, he routinely mentors teams, shapes technical direction, and drives best practices around testing, security and maintainability. His background includes payment integrations, recurring billing and building media/tagging APIs, reflecting a knack for solving messy integration problems. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs practical product sensibility with a designer’s touch from Photoshop and Excel fluency, often bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders to simplify real-world workflows. He’s continuously learning and enjoys turning legacy codebases into robust, team-owned platforms.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B Bus Sc Information Systems Business Management, B Bus Sc Information Systems Business Management at University of Cape Town
Afrikaans
Github Skills (19)
transform9
jinja28
latex8
template-engine8
expressive6
python6
validators6
twitter-feed5
cookbook4
pyramid4
low-level3
feed3
django2
twitter2
coverage1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Siyavula/siyavula.transforms
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
A set of low-level transforms for some of the Siyavula content pipelines
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
pipelineslow-level
Siyavula/siyavula.latex2image
May 2015 - Sep 2020
Small library that uses LaTeX to transform equations to images.
Contributions:46 commits, 52 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 years 4 months
equationslatextransform
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