Jurie-jan Botha
Founder And Lead Software Architect Engineer at Culture Systems
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorJurie-jan Botha is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building scalable software and leading multidisciplinary teams. As Managing Director and Founder of Culture Systems since 2016, he blends hands-on full-stack development with product strategy and project leadership to deliver for diverse clients. He actively contributes to open-source projects, notably backend work on the bika.lims laboratory information management system and enhancements to a phantomjs-node integration, while also improving front-end compatibility for legacy browsers. His leadership spans both start-ups and contracting work across finance, government, education, and insurance sectors, guiding architectural decisions and scalable platform delivery. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, Jurie-jan is known for turning complex requirements into robust, auditable solutions and for building teams and processes that enable sustainable growth. He combines entrepreneurial drive with technical depth to translate vision into reliable, production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (16)
css10
nodejs10
javascript10
flexbox10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
coffeescript10
python10
phantomjs10
web-scraping9
stylus9
plone9
zope9
api8
api-doc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bikalims/bika.lims
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Open Source Web-based Laboratory Information Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:88 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jurie-jan primarily focused on implementing features related to pro forma and published invoices, indicating a focus on financial aspects within the laboratory management system. Their contributions include implementing the initial pro forma invoice functionality, handling both pro forma and published invoices, and adding a print view for analysis request invoices. The user also made improvements to the sample point handling in invoices and made some changes to improve the performance of the code.
management-systeminformation-managementlaboratoryphpweb-based
stylus/nib
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Stylus mixins, utilities, components, and gradient image generation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jurie-jan primarily focused on adapting the Stylus/Nib repository for Internet Explorer 10 compatibility. Their contributions involved modifying CSS to use vendor prefixes and alternative implementations for flexbox-related properties, specifically addressing issues related to the `display`, `flex`, `flex-flow`, `flex-direction`, `order`, `align-items`, `align-content`, and `justify-content` properties. These changes included swapping `-webkit-flex` and other prefixes with the `-ms-flex` equivalent to resolve display issues on IE10. Their work was focused on ensuring the correct rendering of flexbox layouts in the browser.
stylusmixinsgradientimage-generationimage-gradient
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