Schalk Van Heerden
Backend IoT Software Engineer at PowerOptimal
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolSchalk Van Heerden is a Backend IoT Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable OT and IoT systems from the plant floor to cloud APIs, currently shaping backend services at PowerOptimal. He previously led software development at FSK Electronics, managing a multidisciplinary team, implementing DevOps, and maintaining edge connectivity servers and alarm-panel integrations for critical systems. His engineering foundation spans chemical and control engineering, giving him a systems-thinking approach to process control, reverse osmosis design, and embedded connectivity. Comfortable bridging hardware and software, he has a track record of turning complex industrial requirements into monitored, maintainable solutions and has repeatedly implemented bespoke tooling and standards in regulated environments. Based in the Western Cape, he blends hands-on coding with operational reliability and a knack for integrating new hardware interfaces into scalable backend architectures.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) Chemical Engineering at North-West University / Noordwes-UniversiteitB.Eng (Hons) Control Engineering, B.Eng (Hons) Control Engineering at University of Pretoria Senior Certificate, Senior Certificate at Grey College
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (28)
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data-repository9
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python8
snapcraft8
kanban8
dashboard8
javascript8
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data-science7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
heerden/Covid19TrendsZA
May 2020 - Nov 2023
Covid-19 analytics dashboard for South Africa
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 128 pushes in 3 years 7 months
analyticssouthanalytics-dashboardsouth-africadashboard
heerden/kodi-music-video-nfo
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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