About

I'm Jeremia Fourie, a software engineer and final-year BComp student 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. Gerhard still builds the web platform with me, and — with years of web development and client consulting behind him — he's the one I learn both crafts from. 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 put computer vision in the cockpit through the edge team I led — sensors wired into a Raspberry Pi — while I also 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, and I keep making time to hand-write where I can — though the systems often grow faster than the time I get to go deep alone. AI remains the fastest teacher I've ever had, as long as it stays a teacher and not a substitute for understanding. That question — whether we understand AI-written code as well as we think we do — is now literally my Honours dissertation. That gap is a big part of what I'm after now: a full-time engineering team where I can learn more and go deep. Everything I build today is part-time by design — hobbies I enjoy and intend to keep as exactly that — so the full-time seat gets my full focus, and my aim is to grow within it.

I work from a terminal — Neovim, tmux — because text-first tooling composes. That meant Linux, and lately a Sway desktop I was putting together piece by piece; when that laptop broke in half — I sat on it; it went everywhere with me — I moved to a MacBook and found macOS strangely familiar: the cohesive system I'd been trying to assemble. The servers my code ships to still run Linux, and the terminal came with me unchanged. This site is built the way I work: have a look at how I work, check what I'm doing now, or press ⌘K.