Lou van der Bijl
Social Media
Organisations
CO-Organiser of CPT MS Developer Community
Engagements
Speaking Engagements:
- Samsung Future Innovation Lab 2020 – 2023
- DevConf 2022
- Microsoft Ignite 2020
- CPTMSDUG 2018 – 2023
I’m on an exciting journey into Cyber Security and aim to become part of The Red Team, focusing on Azure and Web Applications. I’m currently studying my CARPT and will be starting my certification path to becoming a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect. Im also becoming a Super User with Archangel by Hakware.
I am a User Interface professional with a proven record in User Interfaces (UI) and User Experience (UX) design and development, strategy, team leadership and application innovation. I also handle the security of all the sites under my department – this includes “Immediate Alert Response”, Vulnerabilities Assesment and Fix Actioning” – working with WordFence and other security applications, as well as threat tracking, hack attempt tracing and utilizing my contacts to shut down the threat origin where I can.
I believe that User Experience and actually building User Interfaces are not separate and should ideally be a joint effort. Because of my previous development experience in C#, VB.NET, PHP and SQL, I am able to help and guide the Backend developers to integrate with the Frontend. I am known to be a problem solver, if there’s a problem, I am there to fix it!
I have been responsible for the user experience and design of various web application platforms and custom web and mobile applications. I created one of South Africa’s first responsive SharePoint 2010 sites, and and since then, making all web application work for every device is a long life passion of mine.
I have been tasked with solving UI problems ranging from responsive code to code bugs to functionality issues. I can take a project from conception to deployment, as I am well versed in information gathering and specification writing (User, Functional and Technical), prototyping (low to high definition wireframing), graphic design and coding. I am also able to do training and user manuals as well as be involved on a server level with deployments, maintenance and issue diagnosis (Azure and AWS) .
I am known for my ability to problem solve across all web platforms, and pride myself on being able to implement solutions in a timely manner, this is why I enjoy being a part of all Incident Response Teams.