Mardu Swanepoel
Software Engineer at Flinn.ai
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMardu Swanepoel is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building data-centric, AI-driven systems and leading engineering teams across Europe. He has shipped production-grade solutions for clients like Apple Music and major automotive and airline companies, specialising in scalable ETL, Spark workflows, Kafka event streams, and NLP-powered risk detection across millions of information points daily. As an engineering lead he bridges product and engineering, owning architecture, CI/CD/Kubernetes GitOps migrations, and mentoring teams to deliver resilient SaaS and data platforms. His background in mechatronics and a master’s in electronic engineering gives him a systems-level view that surfaces practical design trade-offs between hardware, data, and software. Now based in Vienna and currently at Flinn.ai, he blends hands-on backend and data engineering with AI integration experience to turn complex data signals into actionable product features. An understated strength is his track record of migrating legacy orchestration and deployment systems to modern, maintainable platforms that improve compliance and operational efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
National Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Die Hoërskool MenloparkMaster's of Engineering Electronic Engineering, Master's of Engineering Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversityCoursework in Business Administration & Entrepreneurship, Coursework in Business Administration & Entrepreneurship at ETH Zürich
English, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (8)
google-vision-api4
google-vision4
scalajs3
scala2
vision-api2
api2
computer-vision1
augmented-reality1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marduSwanepoel/simple-scala-bootstrap
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
An open-source project created to provide developers with a quick and simple way to get a Scala service with the most essential functionality required, running.
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
scalajsessentialscalaopen-source-projectwith-service
We-Solve-For-X/web-scraping
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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