Stuart Corbishley
Chief Technology Officer at Open Function
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolStuart Corbishley is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 14 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems using Ruby, JavaScript and Elixir. He combines deep expertise in TDD, API and server architecture with a strong focus on user experience and maintainable code, having designed backend systems with Phoenix, Redis and Postgres and even built a custom JavaScript transpiler for declarative data migration. Stuart has progressed from senior developer roles to leading engineering teams at OpenFn, where he moved from core contributor to Head of Engineering and now CTO, demonstrating both technical depth and product-minded leadership. He brings a practical systems-design instinct that balances quality with rapid feature delivery, and his background as a professional photographer hints at a practiced eye for usability and attention to detail. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he is comfortable across disciplines—product, architecture and implementation—and invests personally in the long-term success of the projects he leads.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
IEB Matric, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Geography, Biology, Computer Science, IEB Matric, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Geography, Biology, Computer Science at MichaelhouseBSc. Hons., Computing and Information Systems, BSc. Hons., Computing and Information Systems at London Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (140)
interoperability10
automation10
dpi10
lightning10
elixir10
adaptor10
workflow-automation10
phoenix-framework10
logger10
mirage10
addon10
journal9
sql9
data-mapping9
database9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenFn/doclet-query
May 2016 - Apr 2021
JSDoc Metadata Query Tools
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 years 11 months
stuartc/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years
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