Ruan Luies
Chief Technology Officer at elytica
Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa
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Top SchoolRuan Luies is a CTO and founder with 11 years of experience turning combinatorial optimization research into production-grade software and services. He built a proprietary modeling language (hlpl) in C++, integrated major solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi, LocalSolver, HiGHS, Clp/Cbc), and exposed them via an API-backed SaaS (service.elytica.com) with a web IDE, WebSocket compute fabric, Excel add-in, and Python client. Equally at home in low-level systems and web stacks, he codes in C++, C#, Python and Lua and has taught advanced optimization and C++ courses at North-West University. His PhD in Industrial Engineering underpins a pragmatic focus on solving “impossible” optimization problems for real users, and he often bridges academia and product by shipping research-grade algorithms as user-facing tools. Based in Potchefstroom, South Africa, he uniquely blends deep optimization expertise with full-stack engineering and developer tooling experience.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering at North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
Github Skills (72)
3d10
coin-or10
modular10
trinitycore10
azerothcore10
webgl10
typescript10
world-of-warcraft10
webvr10
server10
game-engine9
mmo9
linux9
mangos9
management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Baggins800/dijkstra_lemon
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
Baggins800/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Apr 2025
i3 config
Contributions:17 pushes in 8 years 10 months
dotfilesi3wmi3-configconfig
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