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Software Engineer · 2X Founder · Researcher · Educator

Building technology, communities,and ideas from scratch.

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Pretoria, South Africa

Summary

I’m Gabriel O. Shoderu, a software engineer, researcher, educator, and 2x founder building technology, communities, and ideas from scratch. My work sits at the intersection of software development, human-centred design, and purposeful problem solving, with a focus on creating thoughtful digital experiences and practical solutions.

Across research, product building, teaching, and startup work, I enjoy turning complex ideas into clear, useful experiences. Whether I’m building web applications, designing systems, mentoring learners, or shaping ventures like From Scratch Hub and GroomBuzz, I aim to create high-quality work with quiet impact.

Driven by curiosity, service, and continuous learning, I build with intention, blending engineering, design thinking, and community to create work that helps people.

Skills & Tools

A growing collection of languages, frameworks, platforms and practices I use to turn ideas into dependable digital products.

  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • C++
  • C
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • Responsive Design
  • Figma
  • Flask
  • Magento 2
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • DynamoDB
  • REST APIs
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3
  • CloudFront
  • API Gateway
  • Route 53
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Shell
  • WSL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Mentoring
  • Problem Solving
  • Cloud Engineering

Experience

Work, research, education, ventures, client projects, community initiatives and media moments that have shaped my journey.

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Professional Experience

Software Developer

Consnet

Enterprise software development

At Consnet, I worked on enterprise e-commerce applications built with Magento 2. My work included custom modules, admin grids and forms, customer-group functionality, sales workflows, database integrations and debugging across complex development environments.

My contribution

I contributed to authorization-code workflows, tint-compliance functionality, product and catalogue features, sales-order staging, administrative interfaces and other business-specific Magento modules.

Impact

The work strengthened my ability to understand large existing systems, translate business requirements into maintainable software and debug issues across application, database and Docker layers.

  • Magento 2
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Docker
  • JavaScript
  • Admin UI
  • E-commerce
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