Dave New
Founding Senior Engineer at Keel
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDave New is a founding senior engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native, high-availability systems from first principles. He blends hands-on development in Go and .NET Core with strategic ownership of technical roadmaps, having co-founded and led engineering at WhereIsMyTransport and now shaping a platform-first startup at Keel. Dave is passionate about system architecture, Domain-Driven Design, the Actor Model and practical DevOps—skills he uses to align teams, pick pragmatic technologies, and design solutions that anticipate scale. He also incubates product ventures in retail and STEM education, showing an appetite for turning technical ideas into commercial and social impact. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs formal training in computer science and information systems with a track record of shipping resilient distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BCom Honours, Information Systems, BCom Honours, Information Systems at University of Cape TownRondebosch Boys' High SchoolUniversity of South Africa
English, Afrikaans
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Github contributions (5)
teamtradeworks/createspace
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:10 reviews, 55 PRs, 208 pushes in 6 months
davenewza/tradeworks
Nov 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 PRs, 87 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
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