Summary
Ruan Bekker is a Business Intelligence Specialist with eight years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise data warehouses for higher education and commercial clients. He combines deep expertise in Python, SQL, ETL (SAP Data Services, SSIS), and orchestration with Apache Airflow, alongside reporting skills in Power BI and SAP Web Intelligence. At the University of Liverpool and previously at the University of Cape Town he’s led system and data architecture, platform integration, and analytic application development across complex source systems like PeopleSoft and SAP. Comfortable across cloud, NoSQL (MongoDB) and relational platforms, he also builds supporting services and REST APIs in Flask to bridge engineering and analytics needs. Notably, his background spans both retail-focused ETL leadership and academic-scale BI, giving him a pragmatic perspective on scalable, production-grade data solutions.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Hons Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Informatics, Hons Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Informatics at North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit
High Technical School Potchefstroom