Sybrand Strauss
Senior Software Engineer at Zenysis Technologies
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolSybrand Strauss is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience (and a career stretching back to the late 1990s) who currently builds data-driven solutions at Zenysis Technologies from Cape Town. He has deep, practical full-stack expertise across Python, C#, Java/Android and modern cloud stacks (AWS, Kafka, Redis, MySQL) and a track record of rapidly skilling up to meet client needs in both startup and government contexts. Past roles include delivering large-scale public-sector systems for the Government of British Columbia and designing nationwide WiFi and cloud storage platforms for MWeb and Rackspace initiatives. Sybrand pairs systems-level architecture experience—message queues, scalable back ends and deployment automation—with hands-on UI work in React/Redux and embedded/mobile integrations. Outside work he codes with interests in wildfire response and mountain biking, suggesting a pragmatic focus on resilient, field-oriented software. His BSc in Computer Science with a computational intelligence focus underpins a career of turning complex integration challenges into reliable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
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postgresql10
python10
recovery10
ministry10
javascript10
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credits10
postgis10
decision-making10
typescript10
verification10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bcgov/wps-vector-tileserver
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Vector tile server for the Wildfire Predictive Services Unit
Contributions:1 review, 50 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
pythonunitpostgisvectoropenlayers
bcgov/wps
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Wildfire Predictive Services to support decision making in prevention, preparedness, response and recovery
Contributions:958 reviews, 762 commits, 501 PRs in 2 years 8 months
decision-makingpythonpreparednessdjangopostgis
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