Stephan Joubert
Senior Web Designer, Front-end Developer, Wordpress, Joomla at R&A Strategic Communications
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Joubert is a senior web designer and front-end developer based in Johannesburg with over 8 years of focused experience building WordPress and Joomla sites. He blends a strong visual design background—grounded in a Higher National Diploma in Graphic Communications—with hands-on front-end development to deliver pixel-accurate, CMS-driven websites. At R&A Strategic Communications he has led web projects that balance creative direction with maintainable code and accessibility. Beyond CMS work, he contributes to open-source tooling, notably a Home Assistant integration for Solarman inverters where he implemented parsing, checksum validation, and retry logic to improve reliability. His career spans early multimedia and animation roles through digital creative leadership, giving him an unusual depth in both motion/visual storytelling and pragmatic web engineering. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integration requirements into stable, user-focused web experiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
Github Skills (5)
home-assistant10
energy10
python10
home-automation10
yaml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StephanJoubert/home_assistant_solarman
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Home Assistant component for Solarman collectors used with a variety of inverters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 1 review, 76 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the development of a Home Assistant component for Solarman inverters. Their work focused on parsing data from the inverters, implementing communication protocols, and integrating with Home Assistant sensors. The commits show the creation of a parser for interpreting inverter data, as well as the setup and maintenance of core functionalities within the integration. Furthermore, the user enhanced the robustness of the integration by including checksum validation and retry mechanisms for improved reliability.
collectorsassistantsolarhome-automationsolarman
lszeremeta/home_assistant_solarman
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Home Assistant component for Solarman collectors used with a variety of inverters.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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