Robert Fanner
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Fanner is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with over 8 years of formal experience and two decades of deep technical practice spanning C/C++, Python, signal processing and graphics software. As former Senior Director of Engineering at Foundry he led core platform, DevOps and next‑gen AR/VR teams, contributed to open-source governance and supported M&A technical due diligence, blending engineering rigour with product-facing collaboration. He now co‑founds a technical due diligence start‑up that pairs human expert advisory with advanced LLM and agentic systems to push delivery efficiency and decision quality. Trained as an electrical engineer with an M.Sc.Eng. in digital signal processing, he brings rare cross-domain strength in real‑time systems, VFX tooling and applied ML/vision. Known for turning research prototypes into production-quality tooling, he favors human‑in‑the‑loop architectures and pragmatic architectural reviews that scale organizations as well as systems.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Master of Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Digital Signal Processing at University of Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (17)
cg10
scene10
spdx9
asset-pipeline9
compliance-automation8
compliance8
hash-functions7
plugin7
command-line7
katana7
database7
hash7
usd6
digest6
content-management-system5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheFoundryVisionmongers/USD
Jun 2018 - Sep 2025
Universal Scene Description
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 3 months
universal-scene-descriptionscene
rfanner/fossology
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
fossologycompliancecopyrightvulnerabilitiesvulnerability-detection
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