Edrich Barnard

01Profile

Full-stack software engineer with close to six years of production experience across Agri-Tech, fitness, cold storage, cellar management, banking and church tech. Owns products end to end, from database schema and APIs to native plugins and App Store releases, and has led client projects from scoping to delivery. Currently runs the white-label Flutter platform and its release pipeline for a New York-based team.

02Experience

1. Jul 2025 – Now · Remote, New York

   Full-Stack Software Engineer · Inspiration Starts Here

   • Mobile engineering: designed and built, solo, a white-label Flutter application that runs all of the company's branded apps from a single codebase.
   • Release engineering: own the iOS (TestFlight) and Android (Google Play) release process for every white-label app, and wrote the scripts and tooling that automate builds and releases down to as few steps as possible.
   • Site builder: built the effects and animation engine that drives the visual effects in the company's website builder.
   • Full-stack feature development: build and maintain core product features on a custom PHP backend and Vue.js frontend.
   • Production support: take part in the on-call rotation, triaging and fixing internally reported bugs and issues.
   • Flutter
   • PHP
   • Vue.js
   • TestFlight
   • Google Play
   • Release automation

2. Dec 2020 – Jul 2025 · Paarl, South Africa

   Full-Stack Software Developer · I3 Zone Development

   • Project leadership: led most of the projects I worked on — client communication, scoping and project management through to delivery — and took part in interviewing new candidates.
   • Agri-Tech: built and maintained a fruit-evaluation platform used by around 200 people, with a Laravel, MySQL and Redis backend, an Angular front end and a native Android app.
   • Cold-chain monitoring: built real-time monitoring in MeteorJS on Teltonika sensors, tracking temperature and humidity and plotting GPS routes on a map.
   • Fitness: designed and launched a fitness application with Vue.js and Cordova, focused on user experience.
   • Cellar management: contributed to cellar management systems integrating ASP.NET and React.
   • Banking: implemented Cordova plugins in Swift and Kotlin for cross-platform iOS and Android support.
   • In-house products: developed functionality for in-house solutions using Grails and Spring Boot.
   • Build and infrastructure: updated Jenkins build scripts, maintained servers for performance and reliability, and evaluated AWS DynamoDB as a data store for a client project.
   • Push notifications: implemented device notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging.
   • Laravel
   • Angular
   • MySQL
   • Redis
   • Android
   • MeteorJS
   • Teltonika
   • Vue.js
   • Cordova
   • ASP.NET
   • React
   • Grails
   • Spring Boot
   • Swift
   • Kotlin
   • Firebase
   • Jenkins

3. Jan – Feb 2019 · Paarl, South Africa

   Intern · One2One IT Services & Solutions

   • IT support: hardware and software installs, networking and cabling, and day-to-day troubleshooting.

03Selected projects