Alexander Van Zyl
Lead Software Engineer at TSN Systems
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Van Zyl is a Lead Software Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in low-latency, high-bandwidth networking, Linux kernel debugging, and performance tuning. He combines deep systems expertise—from OSI layers 1–4 and lock-free programming to SIMD, io_uring and hugepages—with hands-on hardware collaboration and custom networking device validation. His background spans radar and signal processing research (MEng, cum laude) through to ML infrastructure, Terraform/SkyPilot orchestration, and production-grade tooling in C++, Go, JavaScript and Haskell. He has built high-performance GPU-accelerated graphics systems and real-time radar software, and he’s comfortable reading kernel and driver source to chase down elusive bugs. Known for a pragmatic “build, learn, share” approach, he mentors juniors and balances research rigor with shipping robust, performance-critical systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Radar, Machine Learning and Software Engineering, Cum Laude (83%), Master of Engineering, Radar, Machine Learning and Software Engineering, Cum Laude (83%) at Stellenbosch University
Github Skills (89)
fastapi10
postgresql10
web-application10
json-schema10
python10
swagger10
backend10
openapi10
flask10
letsencrypt10
docker-compose10
tortoise-orm10
api10
jwt10
chakra-ui10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexvanzyl/ticketmonster
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
justdockit/justdockit-laravel
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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