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Dr Liam Terblanche

Activist · DISC type Cd
Chief Technology Officer at Airvantage (Pty) Ltd
📍 City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Dr. Liam Terblanche is the Chief Technology Officer at Airvantage, bringing over 25 years of software engineering experience. His expertise lies in microservices architecture and DevOps, and he holds a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management. Colleagues note his passion for work creates general enthusiasm and excitement.

His interest in engineering sparked in his youth, when he taught himself to code by entering source code from magazines onto his Commodore 64. This foundational passion for building things from scratch continues to be a driving force in his professional life, viewing engineering as making something exceptional out of the ordinary.

He co-founded Scriversi, an authoring automation solution, to solve what he sees as a universal problem: the inability to keep technical documentation current.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Personality Overview

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Meticulous
Value Conscious
Observative

They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They respond well to confident salespeople. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Dr cares about

Authoring Automation
Co-founded Scriversi to solve the challenge of keeping documentation up-to-date, believing if we can put robots on Mars, we should be able to solve this problem.
Microservices & DevOps
This has been his primary professional focus for the last several years, indicating deep expertise in modern, scalable software architecture and deployment methodologies.
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Career

Work history

4-2015
Chief Technology Officer
Airvantage (Pty) Ltd
4-2021 - 12-2024
Founding Member
Scriversi
1-2006 - 3-2015
Chief Information Officer
Accsys (Pty) Ltd
1-2003 - 7-2004
Development Manager
UCS Solutions
1-1995 - 1-1998
Engineer
Mittal Steel
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Media appearances

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Education
2009 - 2012
PhD
DaVinci Institute
2005 - 2006
M.Eng
University of the Witwatersrand
1990 - 1994
B.Eng
North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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