Trevor Gowing
Co-Founder CEO at The Lekker Network
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, Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Information Systems, Honours at Rhodes University
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
testing10
authentication10
spring-security10
security10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
docker-compose10
kotlin-android10
test-automation10
selenium-webdriver10
java10
android-library10
spring-boot10
kotlin10
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
spring-bootspring-mvcspringrestrest-api
trevorgowing/project-log-server
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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