Willem Odendaal
Full-stack Developer at Floatpays
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolWillem Odendaal is a seasoned full-stack developer with over two decades of software experience and more than 11 years in professional roles, combining deep hands-on coding with system architecture and team leadership. He has delivered production software across finance, government, e-commerce and transport — from Nedgroup Investments and Fin24 to the Transit Authority of Victoria and the Western Cape Government. Willem excels at turning complex requirements into polished, client-facing products that delight users, and he balances pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on quality. He’s comfortable across the stack, has led technical teams and architectural decisions, and has repeatedly shipped features for high-impact platforms like Floatpays and Leadhome. A lifelong coder who started at age ten, he stays creatively curious—learning new technologies, making music, drawing, and experimenting with code-driven, unconventional projects in his spare time. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, Willem brings entrepreneurial grit, diverse domain experience, and a passion for building software that makes people smile.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Java Programming, Certificate Java Programming at Van Zyl and PritchardKuswag
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (186)
visual-studio10
editor10
sdk10
kubernetes10
electron10
typescript10
json-api10
vscode-extension10
go10
vscode10
bot-framework10
csharp10
visual-studio-code10
docker10
microsoft10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
leadhomesa/oxygen
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
React component library
Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
react-componentreactreact-component-librarytypescriptcomponent-library
willemodendaal/javascript-web-starters
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
A collection of Javascript samples, showing how to combine technologies like Babel, Webpack, React etc.
Contributions:7 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
babelreactreact-webpackboilerplatetechnologies
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