Tobie Nortje
Electrical Engineer
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolTobie Nortje is an electrical engineer with over 15 years’ experience in power delivery, demand-side management and utility consulting across South Africa. He progressed from sub-transmission network planning at Eskom to leading Measurement & Verification and industrial DSM programmes, delivering more than 70 business cases and managing multi‑million rand projects. As Principal Consultant he now directs Business Analytics and Decision Support at EON (and has run his own consultancy), focusing on asset optimisation, capital budget scrubbing and improving substation availability. Tobie combines technical fluency in load flow and protection studies with commercial skills in strategy development, large capital portfolio management and M&V protocol standardisation. He’s also pursued entrepreneurial and community initiatives—co-founding a hardware-focused makerspace—and has translated a long-standing interest in Python into professional development work. Based in Gauteng, he blends field-level engineering insight with programme-level delivery experience that helps utilities turn technical decisions into measurable system and financial outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Electrical and Electronical, B. Eng, Electrical and Electronical at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
3,573reputation
373kreached
13answers
16questions
pandas
top-5%
ipython
top-5%
jupyter-notebook
top-1%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (163)
prediction-model10
jupyter-notebook10
pandas9
stm32cube9
interactive9
plotly9
optimisation9
cmsis9
ipywidgets9
jupyter-widget9
developer-tools9
data-visualization9
alien9
dashboard9
energy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Tooblippe/pandapower_gui
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:82 commits, 3 PRs, 71 pushes in 14 days
user-interfacegraphical-user-interfacepandapowergraphicalload-flow
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