About

I'm Jeremia Fourie, a software engineer in Pretoria, South Africa. I started Exequtech with Gerhard van Staden in 2021 — while still in high school — doing custom consulting work until we focused on a single product: a field-service platform for trade businesses. At Belgium Campus I met Brian Felgate, saw what he was capable of, and pulled him into our projects; he leads our Go backend now. I introduced him to Linux — he's never looked at Windows the same way since — and he introduced me to Neovim, so we're even. Exequtech is what we build in our free time — a small crew testing our limits, not a day job — shipping to real users.

I see languages and frameworks as tools, not identities. The question is never “what do I know” but “what does this problem need, given what my team and I can bring” — which is why the venue gate got a no-code build with a partner who knew the platform, our field technicians got an offline-first Android app I built with AI assistance, and our capstone team put the computer vision in the cockpit while I built the dashboards on the ground.

These past years my mission has been learning to work with AI properly — managing the chaos, reviewing what it writes, owning what ships. Along the way I noticed I missed the manual coding. So I'm doing more of it, deliberately: hand-writing more of what I ship, going back to fundamentals, and treating AI as the fastest teacher I've ever had rather than a substitute for understanding. What I'm after now is a team where I can grow and go deep.

I work from a terminal on Linux — Neovim, tmux, Sway — because text-first tooling composes, and because the environment I develop in is the one my code ships to. This site is built the way I work: have a look at how I work, check what I'm doing now, or press ⌘K.