Andre Odendaal
Senior Software Engineer at APEX Energies Zimbabwe
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAndre Odendaal is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with over 25 years of full-stack experience spanning fintech, retail, customer service and government. Based in Cape Town, he combines hands-on delivery with empathic collaboration, championing agile practices and continuous improvement across multiple teams and stakeholders. As a Delivery Lead at Equal Experts, he shortened delivery cycles from 45+ days to under 14, expanded a data platform to support 14 online selling products, and led dependencies as an acting Product Owner. In his current role as Senior Software Engineer at APEX Energies Zimbabwe, he implemented environment discipline, least-privilege security, version control, automated semantic versioning and a Python/SQL reporting platform that emailed daily sales, stock and customer status reports to sustain operations during country-wide blackouts. He holds a Master’s in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, and his GitHub bio—engineering manager, framework tinkerer, hobbyist game developer—speaks to a curious, hands-on approach to building and coaching teams.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering, Master's degree, Engineering at University of the WitwatersrandStandard 8, Mechanical Engineering, Standard 8, Mechanical Engineering at Bellville Technical High SchoolNational Diploma, Light Industrial Electronics, National Diploma, Light Industrial Electronics at Roodepoort Technical College
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Github Skills (124)
field-of-view10
libtcod10
dice10
asp-net-core-mvc10
aspnet-mvc10
boilerplate10
vscode-plugin9
unity3d9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
path-finding9
csharp9
angular8
dotnet8
architecture8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aodendaal/entityframeworkcore-tutorial
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 months
get-startedentitycsharpentity-framework-corecore-framework
aodendaal/validate-jwt
Feb 2020 - Jan 2024
Validate a JWT using .NET
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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