I solve business problems with software.
Full-stack engineer. Entrepreneur. Rock climber.
I'm your host, Petrus Theron, a software engineer in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been building commercial web applications professionally since 2003. More about me →.
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My Work Selected Projects
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Krit
Krit lets your customers reach you directly and privately from their phones. Feedback is instantly delivered to on-duty managers via email and SMS with an opportunity to respond.
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iFix Apple® Repairs
iFix tracks 64,000+ repair jobs, 500+ inventory items and millions in revenue at four iFix branches with my software.
- Used daily by 50 iFix employees.
- Used at four branches nationwide.
- Actively developed since 2009 in C# on .NET 4.5.
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Rhythm Music Store 2007-2012
South Africa's largest and longest-running online music store with 85,000+ MP3s. It was profitable for six years until we shut it down on 31 December 2012.
Skills & Qualifications
Formal Education
I have a degree in Electronic Engineering with Computer Science from Stellenbosch University.
Product Design
I have taken several software products from concept to implementation.
UX Design
I design gorgeous user interfaces that are intuitive and simple to use.
Software Architecture
I am experienced in designing large, scalable software systems in various technologies. Primarily .NET-based.
eCommerce
I have built and run several online stores since 2007 which sold digital and physical products by accepting international credit card payments.
Branding & Copywriting
I can communicate well in the written and spoken word, with a good feel for memorable branding.
Source Code For this site
This site is a custom ASP.NET MVC 4 application with MongoDb as a backing store. It utilises the following technologies:
- Amazon Route53 for DNS
- Hosted on a dedicated Windows® Server 2008 box in Hope St, Cape Town
- StructureMap for dependency injection / inversion of control
- Custom ASP.NET membership & role providers for MongoDb
- Bootstrap with a customised Metro theme for the front-end
- jQuery
- CodeMirror for in-browser markup editing
- Amazon S3 storage for hosting image
The source code for this site is hosted on GitHub.
