Software & Systems Engineer

Fanie
Venter

Building things at the intersection of software and hardware — embedded systems, mobile apps, Linux infrastructure, EV engineering, and beyond.

Open to opportunities Auckland, New Zealand
Linux / Arch Embedded / IoT Android / Kotlin 3D Scanning EV Engineering Game Dev Aerospace

01 — About

Who I am

I'm a hands-on engineer and student with a passion for building things that work — from bare-metal hardware through to polished user-facing software. My background spans Linux systems, mobile development, embedded electronics, and competitive EV engineering.

I gravitate toward problems where precision matters: reproducible builds, clean interfaces, and systems that behave exactly as designed. My academic strengths are in Mathematics and Science, and I'm working toward studying Aerospace Engineering at university.

Outside of engineering I stay active in endurance sport — triathlon and field hockey — which keeps me disciplined about incremental improvement and long-term thinking.

Distro Arch Linux / CachyOS
Editor vim
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Goal Aerospace Engineering
EVOlocity 1st Efficiency · 2nd Overall
Status Open to opportunities

02 — Projects

Selected work

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2025 Completed

EV Engineering · Competition

EVOlocity 2025

Competed in Auckland’s EVOlocity electric vehicle competition with outstanding results. Our team achieved 2nd place overall, 1st in Efficiency, 3rd in Engineering Design, and 2nd in Overall Performance in the Standard Class. The project involved extensive prototyping, systems design, and collaborative problem-solving under competition conditions.

EngineeringEV DesignEfficiencyCompetition
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2025 In Development

Game Development · Mobile

Farmer's Fury

A mobile game developed in the Godot engine featuring strategy and action elements optimised for touch controls. Built with smooth performance and intuitive UX as core goals, targeting Android and iOS platforms.

GodotGDScriptMobileGame Dev
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2025–2026 Planning

Aerospace · Research

Aerospace Projects

Researching and planning aerospace engineering and embedded systems projects aligned with my goal of studying Aerospace Engineering at university. Focus areas include flight dynamics, sensor integration, and embedded control systems.

AerospaceEngineeringEmbeddedResearch
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2024–25 Completed

Mobile · Android

Route Tracker App

A GPS-based delivery tracking application for Android. Features OSMDroid offline maps, Room-backed persistent run history, automatic street detection via geofencing, and a tap-to-confirm interaction model built for single-handed use on the move.

KotlinAndroid StudioRoom DBOSMDroidMaterial 3
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2025 In Development

Hardware · Computer Vision

Photogrammetry 3D Scanner

A custom low-budget 3D scanner built on the OpenScan platform using a Raspberry Pi, stepper motors, and interchangeable camera modules. Evaluating IR ToF sensors and global shutter modules for high-accuracy point cloud capture at a fraction of commercial scanner cost.

Raspberry PiOpenScanPythonVL53L5CXOV9281
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2025 Completed

Linux · GPU Compute

DaVinci Resolve on ROCm / Arch

End-to-end debugging to run DaVinci Resolve with full GPU acceleration on an AMD Radeon RX 6600 under CachyOS/Arch Linux. Resolved ROCm 7.2 compatibility, mesa-git conflicts, ABI mismatches, and Intel OneAPI TBB interference — producing a stable, reproducible setup.

Arch LinuxROCm 7.2AMD RX 6600Bashmesa-git
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2025-2026 Planning

Aerospace Projects

Currently researching and planning new aerospace engineering and coding projects. These upcoming works will focus on fundamental aerospace concepts, flight dynamics, and embedded systems programming as I work toward my goal of studying Aerospace Engineering at university.

In ProgressAerospaceEngineeringResearch

03 — Skills

Tools & stack

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Linux Systems

Arch Linux / CachyOS Pacman / AUR / Systemd Shell scripting ROCm / GPU compute Driver debugging
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Android / Kotlin

Android Studio Jetpack / Room DB FusedLocation / Geofencing OSMDroid Material 3
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Embedded

Raspberry Pi / GPIO Stepper motor control I²C / SPI sensors ToF / IR sensing OpenScan platform
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Game Dev

Godot Engine GDScript Mobile-first design Touch controls

EV Engineering

Electric vehicle design Efficiency optimisation Competitive prototyping Systems integration
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Vision / 3D

Photogrammetry Global shutter cams Point cloud capture VL53L5CX / OV9281
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Web

HTML / CSS / JS Hugo static sites Responsive layout Single-file delivery
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Tooling

Git / GitHub Actions vim Bash scripting AUR packaging

04 — Contact

Get in touch

Whether you have a project in mind, a technical problem to solve, or just want to connect — I'd love to hear from you.

Particularly interested in opportunities involving embedded systems, Linux infrastructure, mobile development, and aerospace engineering.

Location Auckland, New Zealand
Status Open to opportunities
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