Wim Keirsgieter
Senior Software Engineer at Playroll
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolWim Keirsgieter is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Western Cape with a decade of experience building networked applications and back-end web systems. He brings strong Python and Java expertise—Flask/Django and Java have been focal points—alongside practical JavaScript and graph-database experience. After progressing through developer roles at Praekelt and Entelect, he now ships production systems at Playroll, blending hands-on implementation with system-level thinking. His academic background includes an honours degree in computer science and coursework in pure/applied mathematics and numerical analysis, which informs his analytical approach to problems. Early work on messaging infrastructure like Vumi and contributions to open-source projects highlight a comfort with distributed systems and integrations. Colleagues find him technical, methodical, and inclined to translate mathematical rigor into reliable backend architectures.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Curro Durbanville High SchoolHonours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at Stellenbosch UniversityBachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
menu10
sms-messages10
im9
sms9
django8
chat8
mhealth8
messaging8
user-experience7
python7
flexibility6
android-studio6
android6
flask-wtforms6
celery-task6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
praekelt/vumi-telegram
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:182 commits, 38 PRs, 96 pushes in 6 months
telegram-bottelegramvuevumitransport
wimkeir/graft
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:167 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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