SALT - Southern African Large Telescope

Deon Bester

Software Engineer
Deon grew up in Simons Town and attended school in Fish Hoek, matriculating in 1978. After 2 years military service, Deon studied at Cape Technikon obtaining his HND in Electronic Engineering l.c in 1984. He then worked as a Test Development Engineer in South Africa and abroad in Portugal (4 years) and the UK (8 years). Deon has 6 years experience in programming in LabVIEW, developing test and control system software for the manufacturing & telecommunication industries. Deon's passions are music, travelling and surfing.