Shanly Rajan
Engineering Lead at Kazang
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolShanly Rajan is an engineering lead with 15 years’ experience designing and delivering payment and telecom products from rapid PoCs to production-grade settlement systems, currently leading squads at Kazang in Cape Town. He blends hands-on architecture and full-stack development experience with product-focused technical ownership, shaping roadmaps, non-functional requirements, and release planning. His background spans low-level FPGA/driver work and high-level platform architecture, giving him a rare ability to bridge embedded systems thinking with scalable cloud-native payments. He mentors and grows teams, drives technical direction across domains, and prioritizes removal of technical debt while enabling fast business outcomes. Notably, his earlier research and published work in radio/FPGA platforms inform a methodical approach to system reliability and performance.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Engineering, MSc, Engineering at University of Cape TownBachelor of Engineering(BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering(BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityMatriculation, Matriculation at Mar Thoma Senior Secondary School
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
linux-kernel2
kernel2
linux1
powerpc1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ska-sa/roach2_linux
Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 6 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxpowerpc
ska-sa/roach2_uboot
May 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 5 months
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