quintinlourens.co.za

Quintin Lourens

Software engineer building reliable, well-crafted systems — from the data layer to the interface people touch.

South Africa

About

Engineering the whole picture.

I care about software as a product, not just as code — how it is designed, how it ships, and how it behaves for the people who depend on it.

Over my career I've worked across the stack: designing APIs and data models, building web frontends, wiring up integrations, and keeping systems running in production. I like problems where the constraint is real — performance budgets, messy legacy data, systems that can't go down.

Outside of work I build personal projects and apps, a few of which live further down this page.

Backend & APIs Service design, data modelling, authentication, and integrations that hold up under real traffic.
Web frontends Fast, accessible interfaces with modern tooling — built to be maintained, not just launched.
Cloud & delivery Containerised deployments, pipelines, and monitoring so releases are boring in the best way.
Data & integration SQL at the core; moving, cleaning and connecting data between systems that were never meant to talk.

Selected work

Things I've built.

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Flagship project

Your headline project

Two or three sentences on the problem it solved, your role, and the measurable impact it had. Link to a live demo or case study if you can.

C#.NETSQL Server
Personal app

An app you shipped

Side projects show range and initiative. Describe what it does, who uses it, and one interesting technical decision you made along the way.

ReactTypeScriptNode.js
Open source

A tool or library

A utility, library, or contribution you're proud of. Even small tools tell a reviewer a lot about how you think and how you write code.

DockerAzureCI/CD

Experience

Where I've been.

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2023 — present

Senior Software Engineer · Company name

One or two lines on scope and ownership: the systems you ran, the team you worked in, and the result that mattered most.

2020 — 2023

Software Engineer · Company name

Focus on what changed because you were there — a migration landed, a product launched, a process that got faster.

2017 — 2020

Developer · Company name

Early-career roles still count: name the stack you learned and the first real production system you were trusted with.

Contact

Let's build something worth shipping.

Got an interesting problem, a project, or just want to talk shop? The fastest way to reach me is email.