Marius Kruger
Software Developer at Solve4x
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMarius Kruger is a pragmatic software developer with 19 years of experience building Java-centric web systems, leading teams through on-prem to cloud migrations, and automating delivery pipelines. He specializes in Linux-first, JVM-based stacks (Java, Spring, Vaadin) and has a growing passion for Julia, combining strong TDD and CI/CD practices with hands-on devops tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab and Azure. Comfortable both as a team lead and individual contributor, he has designed solutions, unblocked large teams, and delivered production systems for clients including Discovery and Netstock. A lifelong programmer who started with BASIC in 1989 and holds an M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science, he also contributes to free software projects and experiments with hardware and maker tools in side projects. Notably, he insists on remote roles with a Debian workstation, reflecting a deep commitment to an open, reproducible developer environment.
19 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Hoërskool MonumentMaster of Science (M.Sc.) (Cum Laude), Computer Science (Computer Algebra), Master of Science (M.Sc.) (Cum Laude), Computer Science (Computer Algebra) at Rand Afrikaans University
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (75)
bazaar10
breezy10
science10
julia10
version-control10
programming-language9
maven-extension9
maven-plugin9
maven9
machine-learning9
hpc9
juliadb9
julialang8
jshell8
docker8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amanica/tomee-embedded-trial
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
amanica/AlpacaMarkets.jl
Feb 2023 - Dec 2025
Julia interface to the Alpaca Trading API
Contributions:16 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 10 months
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