Trevor Gowing
Co-Founder MD at GTMx
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolTrevor Gowing is a software architect and founder with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams, currently co-founding and running Decode Development to deliver quality software for education and health impact projects. He moves between hands-on engineering and leadership, having led development and scaling efforts at organisations like Jembi and BSG while shipping integrations, EHR/PHR systems, and resilient event-driven services. Trevor emphasizes strong SDLC design and automated testing, learned from rescuing and reworking underperforming systems, and frequently partners with game studios to blend engagement and social outcomes. Based in the Western Cape, he is active in the local tech community—co-organizing the Cape Town Java Community and mentoring through EO Accelerator—and brings a practical, product-focused mindset to architecting reliable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Information Systems at Rhodes University
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
junit-test10
jvm10
spring10
testing10
docker-compose10
java10
junit10
docker-container10
spring-boot10
integration-testing10
post9
selenium9
jdbc9
spring-mvc9
kotlin9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trevorgowing/tutorials
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
The "REST With Spring" Course:
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
rest
trevorgowing/project-log-server
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 3 months
issue-trackingriskpythontracking
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