Julian Kenwood
Senior Software Engineer at takealot.com
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Kenwood is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust software systems across startups and enterprise teams, now contributing at takealot.com. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town and brings deep proficiency in Python, Java, C and C++, proven across roles from product-focused Cape Networks to platform and leadership positions at Hexagon PPM. As a former Team Lead and Principal Engineer, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, driving architecture and delivery for complex projects. His background includes low-level systems work and practical product engineering for networking and monitoring solutions, reflecting a comfort with both performance-sensitive code and user-focused features. Based in the Western Cape, Julian has a track record of moving between startup agility and enterprise-scale discipline, often turning research-grade ideas into maintainable production systems. Colleagues know him for methodical problem solving and an ability to mentor teams while sustaining high-code quality.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (58)
datatypes9
parser8
rust8
parse8
aws-sdk8
asynchronous8
parser-combinators7
nom7
networking7
aws7
combinator7
sdk7
grammar7
python7
compiler6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nomad010/typesafe_json
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cppserializationtypesafehandlingjson
nomad010/librrb
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
A work-in-progress implementation of an RRB tree with some extra invariants
Contributions:4 PRs, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
rrb-treein-progressinvariantsdata-structureswork-in-progress
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