Ruan Potgieter
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Playroll
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRuan Potgieter is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in the Western Cape with eight years of experience building and leading teams across fintech and SaaS products. He has progressed from hands-on software engineer roles to technical and team lead positions, most recently combining leadership and delivery as a Software Engineering Team Lead at Prodigy Finance and now as a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Playroll. Comfortable across the stack, Ruan has taken on senior Python engineering responsibilities and rapid-role transitions in dynamic companies, showing adaptability and a knack for shipping pragmatic solutions. His background in IT from North-West University and steady career advancement reflect both technical depth and a talent for mentoring engineers through growth phases. An avid problem-solver, he blends a developer’s attention to detail with the strategic view required to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at North-West University / Noordwes-UniversiteitNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Richards Bay High School
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Github Skills (39)
storage8
bootstrap7
javascript7
sandbox7
aws-s37
aws7
react7
nodejs6
cookie6
aws-amplify6
amazon-web-services6
http-post6
axios6
amplify6
devtools6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ruanpotgieter95/github-app
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Testing technologies by using github's API
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 months
testingapiapi-stechnologies
ruanpotgieter95/test-deploy-react
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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