Sean Huni
Senior Software Engineer at Alpha Zeus
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolSean Huni is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native microservices and real-time systems, specializing in Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, Java (up to Java 24) and NewSQL databases like CockroachDB. He has led large-scale migrations from monoliths to poly-repo microservice architectures at major African banks and fintechs, driving CI/CD, observability, and secure secret management with Vault and cloud providers. A certified Matlab machine learning and neural networks practitioner, Sean bridges ML research and production engineering—contributing to fraud-detection and recommendation systems—while advocating automated, test-driven delivery. He thrives on architecting enterprise cloud adoption (batch and real-time), mentoring cross-functional teams, and turning hackathon experiments into high-ROI solutions that continue to generate meaningful revenue. Outside of work he pursues hands-on tech projects (Raspberry Pi) and is an experienced skydiver with a B-license and nearly 500 jumps, reflecting a taste for disciplined risk-taking and continuous self-improvement.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at University of LiverpoolPrince Edward SchoolHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBTEC Higher National Diploma (London School of Business and Management Edexcel) Information Technology, BTEC Higher National Diploma (London School of Business and Management Edexcel) Information Technology at CTI Education GroupFerndale High School
English, Bantu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
exceptions10
xml10
jaxb10
linux-mint9
ubuntu9
npm9
nextjs9
intellij-idea9
java9
webpack9
gradle9
angular9
slf4j8
adapter8
crfsuite8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sean-huni/resume-microservice
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
My Resume Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 1 month
sean-huni/light-saber
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:99 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
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