Lunga Sizani
Engineering Manager at Asambeni Getaway Gateway
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolLunga Sizani is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across product-facing and enterprise domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, React, Docker and CI/CD with systems architecture and product roadmap strategy, having led engineering functions at 2U and nCino. Lunga emphasizes people-first leadership—coaching, mentorship and career development—while aligning team culture to business outcomes and psychological safety. He’s also an entrepreneur who co-founded a bootstrapped South African travel club, demonstrating an ability to translate technical skill into customer-focused ventures. Credited with cross-functional delivery and a background in cybersecurity and executive leadership, he blends technical depth with an unusual emphasis on human-centered engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma, Software Development, Post Graduate Diploma, Software Development at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland
English, Xhosa
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Github Skills (21)
solidus9
information-management8
api8
rails8
baobab8
ruby8
laravel8
storefront8
ecommerce7
authorization7
authentication7
php7
spree7
ruby-on-rails6
model-view-controller6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lsizani/CommunityWealth
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 109 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
getsmarter/hackathon-inajam
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Find what you need when you're in a jam.
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
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