Peet Brits

Past

• Software Developer at UCSSM
• Software Developer at SourceCode
• Software Developer at Netronome

• Web Developer at AutoFirst

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Education

• Regent University
• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

Connections

40 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Peet Brits’s Summary

Full time Software developer interested in the "science" part of some software technologies. Part time rock climber.

Worked with: (last updated: Dec-08) (includes training)
C#.NET (2 years; last used: currently)
LINQ (0-1 years; last used: currently)
WPF/XAML (0-1 years; currently)
WCF (0-1 years; currently)
C/C++ (3-4 years; last used: 2007)
MS SQL (1-2 year; last used: currently)
Java (2-3 years; last used: 2005)
JavaServlets & JSP (0-1 years; last used: 2005)
Tomcat server (0-1 years; last used: 2005)
HTML & JavaScript (3-4 years; last used: 2006)
AJAX (0-1 years; last used: 2005)
Myghty (1 year; last used: 2005)
Python (1-2 years; last used: 2006)
Linux bash scripting (1-2 years; last used: 2007)
Tcl/Tk & expect (0-1 years; last used: 2007)
Subversion (rcs) (2 years; last used: 2007)
Flash MX (1 year; last used: 2004)
UML (0-1 years; last used: 2003)
Qt (0-1 years; last used: 2003)
Networking (0-2 years; last used: 2006)
Linux (4 years; various distributions, last used: 2007)
Windows 98, XP (4+ years; last used: currently)
Windows Vista (1 year; last used: currently)

Peet Brits’s Specialties:

In short: making complex abstract things short, simple and user-friendly.

Request my CV (and portfolio) or visit my Blog for more on what makes me tick.

Peet Brits’s Experience

• Software Developer

  UCSSM

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)

  Retail industry software development.
  
  Includes:
  (x) Moving VB forms to C# WPF. Learned quickly, especially regarding Dependency Properties.
  (x) Integration services (using WCF), sending records to other products, like SAP. This included building DB queries with LINQ and some WinForm development.
  
  Includes: Windows XP & Vista, C#.NET, WPF/XAML, WCF, LINQ, MS SQL Server, Borland Starteam (RCS)

• Software Developer

  SourceCode

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  (x) Part of a team developing a natural language grammar, acting as the link between business users and software developers.
  (x) Maintained a Live Communication Server, primarily for detecting Messenger user presence. Included server/client communication via XML serialised objects.
  
  Worked mainly with C#.Net and MS SQL Server.
  
  In my spare time, did some research on (among other things) human management, C# garbage collector, (traditional) cryptography, design patterns.

• Software Developer

  Netronome

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  (x) Linux based.
  (x) WebUI using Myghty, a Python based templating framework. User-friendly front end for (mostly) our card's internal management server. ((Exciting learning challenge, being my first project))
  (x) Python based statistics aggregator implemented as a background daemon.
  (x) Some C and Python client APIs.
  (x) Some network-related test applications (C/C++, bash, Tcl/expect) for our unique NFE network card's requirements. Included coding on Intel's IXP XScale microprocessor.
  (x) Multi-threaded performance test application. ((My one pride and joy))
  (x) A bunch of library applications.
  (x) Big part of a framework running test applications on a host server. This required: installing software, rebooting, simulated software locks for multiple tests, and mailing the results. (Mostly bash and Tcl scripting). ((My other pride and joy))
  
  See my CV for a more detailed description.

• Web Developer

  AutoFirst

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

  March 2005 — May 2005 (3 months)

  Developed a search and management website, though it is not currently in use.
  
  Worked with:
  JavaServlets, jsp, SQL and HTML on a Tomcat server.

Peet Brits’s Education

• Regent University

  Masters , Organizatonal Leadership , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

  BSc , Computer Science , 2001 — 2004

  Request my CV for achievements and spare-time projects.

Additional Information

Peet Brits’s Websites:

• My Blog

Peet Brits’s Interests:

Rock climbing, dancing (latin/ballroom), chess

Peet Brits’s Groups:

•    eXtreme Programming (XP)

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