Robert Maclean
Founder at DevConf
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRobert Maclean is a seasoned software leader and founder based in the Western Cape with 14 years of professional experience and two decades immersed in technology. He founded Good Name, directs DevConf (South Africa’s premier developer conference) and leads the Developer User Group, combining hands-on engineering with community building and event leadership. His consulting and tech-lead roles at Equal Experts, AWS and Microsoft show deep experience modernising platforms, shaping architecture and delivering measurable business outcomes (including £200k savings at John Lewis). Comfortable shipping full-stack solutions across cloud-native stacks—GCP, Kotlin, React and Java—he blends coding, mentoring and stakeholder alignment to move strategy into production. Robert’s track record includes scaling teams, mentoring interns into industry leaders and guiding CTOs on technical strategy, revealing a talent for turning organisational change into tangible delivery. He balances entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic, value-focused consultancy approach that prioritises authenticity and long-term client impact.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (196)
asp-net10
jquery10
documented10
html10
jquery-ui10
css10
markdown9
formatter9
yaml9
api9
warp9
docker-desktop9
winforms9
windows9
routes9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rmaclean/AtomicMVVM
Jan 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:95 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
ALM-Rangers/Print-Cards-Extension
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 26 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
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