Summary
Louise Van Der Lith is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable systems, leading teams, and founding technical ventures from Gauteng, South Africa. She has progressed from junior roles to technical leadership and co-founding a company, designing core frameworks such as a rules engine for medical billing and an object-oriented database (Husk DB-engine). Known for disciplined delivery and deep curiosity, she repeatedly focuses on architecture, reuse, and performance—creating nuget repositories, ETL frameworks, and Kibana/Elasticsearch visualizations. Louise pairs entrepreneurial grit with a willingness to go the extra mile, often taking after-hours responsibility to meet deadlines and mentor peers. Her background spans full lifecycle development, client-facing integrations, and operational deployment, giving her both product and infrastructure fluency. Outside the job titles, she consistently emphasizes learning and craftsmanship, turning complex requirements into maintainable, high-quality solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bothaville Highschool
Matric Certificate, Matric Certificate at Parys Highschool
MCPD, Computer Software Engineering, MCPD, Computer Software Engineering at ww.IT-IQ Training & Solutions
Afrikaans, English