David Joffe
Founder & Principal Engineer at TshwaneDJe Software and Consulting
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Joffe is a founder and principal software engineer with three decades of hands-on C++ and cross-platform development experience, currently leading AI-powered language technology and developer tooling from Cape Town. He co-founded TshwaneDJe and built notable 3D/VR and simulation systems—ranging from mining and defense simulators to a flight-visualization system for the South African Air Force—and led development of the 5DT networked 3D graphics SDK. His technical breadth spans high-performance graphics (DirectX/OpenGL, learning Vulkan), networking, API servers, Lua/PHP/Python integration and localization tooling, with a recent focus on scalable AI orchestration and terminology infrastructure used by education departments. He also maintains practical open-source work (including a retro 2D game now packaged in Debian) and combines product leadership with full lifecycle delivery from architecture to commercialization. Outside engineering he pursues art and language preservation, driving projects that digitize rare linguistic data and expand multilingual dictionary resources for learners.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans, English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (38)
debian10
sdl10
windows10
open-source10
linux10
cross-platform10
scrolling10
wxwidgets10
duke10
macos10
cpp10
2d10
cocoa9
x119
gtk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidjoffe/sokoban
Nov 2016 - Jan 2022
Still Yet Another Sokoban, a clone of the popular puzzle game in which the goal is to push the crates onto the designated squares
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 20 pushes in 5 years 2 months
cppsdlsdl2sokobansokoban-game
davidjoffe/gnukem_data
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 104 commits, 71 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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