Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Strengths/Weaknesses
Languages
Interests
Timeline
Jean-Pierre Retief

Jean-Pierre Retief

Krugersdorp

Summary

Currently a 2nd year student at NWU. I am passionate about building software systems and philosophy and interested in music and video editing and hope to combine these fields one day.

I have learned a lot about OOP design and the system development life cycle over the past few years. I have worked in a team before and hope to learn more about web development.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Junior Software Developer

FINWorks (Pty) Ltd
11.2021 - 11.2022
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
  • Tested functional compliance of company products.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
03-2026
  • Member of Ratio Christi, since 2023

High School Diploma -

Hoërskool Noordheuwel, Krugersdorp, South Africa
12-2020
  • 87.25 Average

Skills

  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Continuous deployment
  • Back end development
  • NET development
  • Git proficiency
  • Software testing
  • Java
  • C
  • C#
  • Smalltalk
  • XPath
  • CSS

Certification

Introduction to Cyber Security

Unity Essentials Pathway

Strengths/Weaknesses

+ Attention to detail

+ Organized


- Deliberate too much, and act too little

- Get bored during meetings

Languages

Afrikaans
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Beginner (A1)

Interests

  • Playing piano
  • Writing music
  • Philosophy
  • Writing poetry, stories
  • Video editing
  • Jogging

Timeline

Junior Software Developer - FINWorks (Pty) Ltd
11.2021 - 11.2022
North-West University - Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
Hoërskool Noordheuwel - High School Diploma,
Jean-Pierre Retief