Rishal Hurbans

Team Lead at Entelect

Rishal Hurbans is a software engineer with interests in web development, mobile development, algorithms, and UX design. He is currently fulfilling the role of a team lead at Entelect. Rishal has been responsible for a variety of projects in the web and mobile space for various blue chip corporates in South Africa. Rishal also enjoys game development, music production, and pondering bad pun jokes in his spare time.

Steven McDonald

That other dude with a beard that works at the place that does things. Apparently he tries to code and even occasionally mentor people. I heard he is super loud and opinionated though and talks about coding, gaming, football and music a little too much

Garren Smith

Founder at Red Comet Labs

Garren is a JavaScript fanatic. As a CouchDB Committer, he has spent the last year working on Fauxton, the new CouchDB Web Interface. He is the founder of Red Comet Labs, where he works as a consultant developer and is a regular contributor to OpenSource code. Garren is also the creator of Classroom 7, an online course building application. He loves living under the African sun in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Rouan Wilsenach

Software developer

Rouan is a software developer from Jo'burg. He studied at Rhodes University, in the Eastern Cape, and at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He's passionate about writing code that makes an impact in people's lives. He's dabbled in Java, Python, Ruby and .NET development and it seems he's now playing around with some Javascript.

Simon Stewart

Founder

Founder of @JSinSA, @FindFreeWiFi, @FindABookShop and others.
I ship stuff.

Mike Geyser

Technical Team Leader at BBD

William Brander

BBD, http://www.bbd.co.za

William Brander is based in Johannesburg, sunny South Africa and works full-time at BBD. He has a MSc in Computer Science and Applied Maths and is currently working towards a PhD in Neural Networks and Swarm technology... assuming he ever settles on a topic. He has been passionate about IT and programming for almost as long as he can remember. His very first program simply printed the lines to Roald Dahl's Augustus Gloop poem on the screen. Exciting stuff, but we all have to start somewhere! Since then, He's used his passion for programming to earn spare money, feeding more and more into an unhealthy obsession with problem solving.

His current techno interests are focused on structuring web applications correctly, always striving to improve and looking for ways to do things better.

Len Weincier

Pieter Germishuys

Absolutely enjoy the work I do. Coder and lover of programming languages.

Luke Venediger

Luke leads a high performance development team at Derivco called Mobile Services who build realtime transaction, authentication and messaging systems. He is also a proud husband and father and collects Lego for his son (no really!).

Kevin Ashton

Kevin is a senior software developer at Lion of Africa. When not doing back-end calculation engines / integration work, he spends his time doing internal and external facing websites (pretending that he knows some CSS). He loves data visualisation and UX. He is also an avid F# nut and sometimes his wife even lets him code when he is at home.

Martin Cronje

Martin is a Software Developer with more than 15 years experience. He spends most of his time mentoring and coaching software teams to help them improve in all facets of their craft. Martin's has an immense passion for software development and spends his remaining energy building software products with the team at nReality.

Jurgens du Toit

Jurgens du Toit likes coding. So much so that he does it professionally and as a hobby. When he's not coding, he spends time with his family. If it's Friday night, he's probably getting the braai ready.
His first experience with computers was playing a dungeon game on a XT with a yellow monochrome screen. Needing to know how it worked, he started learning about computers, until he eventually received his Masters degree in Computer Science from UJ. He is passionate about using good code to solve problems.

Kevin McKelvin

Senior Ruby and JavaScript developer at Platform45

Kevin is a senior Ruby and JavaScript developer at Platform45. He began his career working with C#, but made the switch to the open source world of Ruby on Rails in 2011. He's delivered production web applications with Backbone.js, AngularJS and Ember.js and has a strange obsession with the SOLID principles and unit tested code.

Mark Pearl

Developer Coach at Driven Software

Mark Pearl is a Developer Coach for Driven Software - a Johannesburg based consultancy firm focusing on assisting teams deliver high quality software. Mark also has a passion for software craftsmanship and is actively involved in promoting it in South Africa. From co-hosting the Driven2Dristraction podcast to organizing events for the DeveloperUG, if there is an event happening related to writing software in Johannesburg, you will probably find Mark there.

Evan Knowles

Team Lead at Discovery

Evan’s been exploring computers since the days when he had to dictate commands for his mother to type as he couldn’t read yet. He eventually pushed his interest far enough to pick up a Masters in Artificial Intelligence, and now spends his days playing with new tech, coding Java and Javascript and fencing.

Kudakwashe Murungu

Developer at Databuild

Loves anything to do with moving the Web forward.

Johann du Toit

Founder, Hacker, Team lead and all round nerd.
Working on awesome projects that are pushing Africa forward using Google tech also a recognized Google Developer Expert for Cloud (https://developers.google.com/experts/) and local community leader in Cape Town by running NodeJS Cape Town and helping the local Google Developer Group. Always building and has founded numerous companies being used daily.

Jacques de Vos

Jacques de Vos, a founder at nReality, is an experienced software engineer who cares deeply about delivering pragmatic solutions. He divides his time between coaching development teams and implementing software products for nReality - mostly mobile apps lately.

Jarrod Hermer

Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

Jarrod has been involved with computers since before the Internet, cutting his teeth on the ZX Spectrum.
Today he holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering.
Jarrod has a passion for his bicycle and all things geeky, he enjoys creating awesome services using his coding powers.