Sas Swart
Software Engineer at Coder
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolSas Swart is a software engineer based in Cape Town with a decade of experience building and operating platform and backend systems. After five years as a platform engineer at xneelo and earlier work as a systems administrator, he now contributes to Coder, focusing on backend features like user account management, notifications, and schema evolutions for remote development tooling. He brings practical expertise in API design, database migrations, and improving test coverage—evidenced by expanding golden file tests and tightening notification formats in the open-source coder project. A University of South Africa computer science graduate, Sas combines hands-on operational know-how with a developer-first approach to making cloud dev environments more reliable and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
Github Skills (10)
go10
postgresql10
api10
apidoc10
database-design9
golang9
terraformer8
devtools8
terraform8
development-environment7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 76 PRs, 313 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sas primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the project, focusing on user account management and notification features. They made several improvements to the notification format consistency, and expanded golden file testing for notifications. The user also implemented database schema changes for tracking user status changes. Their work involved modifying API endpoints and database interactions.
devcontainersremote-developmentdevopsvscodeide
SasSwart/can
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Generate Go gin servers from OpenAPI specs
Contributions:18 releases, 77 reviews, 113 commits in 4 months
golangginspecsgo-generatego-gin
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