Kegan Holtzhausen
Event-Driven Architect at Skandia
Linköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKegan Holtzhausen is an Event-Driven Architect with 14 years of experience designing high-availability, 24x7 online systems and a strong background in translating enterprise strategy into operational architecture. He specializes in distributed messaging (Solace JMS, Kafka), pseudonymization of PII for secure data movement, and integrating messaging with data lake and analytics platforms to enable ML-ready, privacy-preserving pipelines. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Docker, hybrid cloud, CI/CD and automation, he blends hands-on Java and Python development with solution architecture and zero-trust networking. Kegan’s career includes long tenures building large-scale, event-driven platforms at Unibet and leading messaging architecture at Skandia, and he brings practical innovations—like custom pseudonymization strategies and self-describing system catalogs—that aren’t visible in org charts but materially reduce risk and operational friction. Based in Linköping, Sweden, he pairs deep systems engineering roots with enterprise-facing collaboration to turn theoretical models into reliable production systems.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CNE, CNE at IT-IQ
Github Skills (200)
hardware10
confluent-cloud10
rest-api10
code-generator10
3d-printer10
rethinkdb10
cnc10
minikube10
sql10
cockroachdb10
gcode10
cnc-controller10
infrastructure10
database10
gocd10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
unixunion/vertx-couchbase
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes in 10 months
unixunion/KSPSerialIO
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
kerbalserialserial-portkerbal-space-programkerbal-space
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