Ruben Slabbert
Senior Software Engineer at Cubiko
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarRuben Slabbert is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brisbane with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and shaping architecture for product teams. Previously Chief Architect at Aginic, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and now drives delivery at Cubiko. Ruben contributes to open-source tooling—adding credential helper support, enhanced logging, tracing, and relative timestamp features to the Git-compatible VCS jj—demonstrating attention to developer experience and secure integrations. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript/Node.js and web technologies, he prefers pragmatic solutions that make debugging and authentication easier in real-world workflows. Colleagues describe him as a systems-minded engineer who surfaces small but impactful improvements that streamline day-to-day developer operations.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
git10
logging10
rust10
cli10
tracer9
trace9
dvcs9
j9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jj-vcs/jj
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 5 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ruben contributed features and improvements to the `jj-vcs/jj` repository. They implemented support for Git credential helpers, enabling secure authentication. The user also added a verbose flag and integrated a tracing library for enhanced logging and debugging. Furthermore, they extended the codebase with verbose logging for clone and fetch commands, improving the command's usability, and added a feature to support relative timestamps.
rslabbert/PyLisp
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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