Shaun Van Nieuwenhuizen
Technology Integrator Software Engineer
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolShaun Van Nieuwenhuizen is a full-stack software engineer and solutions architect with 11 years’ experience, currently integrating real-time industrial IoT systems at BMW IT Hub South Africa. He builds cloud-native, event-driven platforms using Java (Quarkus, Spring Boot), Kotlin, TypeScript (NestJS, Angular) and Kafka, and operates production-grade Kubernetes/Docker infrastructure with observability via Grafana, Loki and Prometheus. His background in enterprise business intelligence (QlikView) informs data-first design and enables actionable analytics across global deployments. Shaun’s work bridges PLC-level data ingestion to user-facing visualizations, and he’s contributed mobile OBD-II tooling on GitHub that reflects hands-on device and debugging experience. Colleagues rely on him for scalable system design, performance tuning, and pragmatic solutions that marry industrial automation constraints with modern microservices patterns.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
GR12, English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Economics, Business,, GR12, English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Economics, Business, at Intec CollegeWitbank Technical High School
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (8)
obd-ii10
javas10
android-sdk10
java10
bluetooth9
debug9
bluetooth-le9
debugging9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pires/android-obd-reader
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Android OBD-II Reader application that uses pure OBD-II PID's Java API.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:14 commits, 18 PRs, 114 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the Android application, focusing on enhancing the OBD-II reader functionality. The changes include adding and displaying diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs), implementing a clear DTC feature, and adding altitude data to the readings, which would affect calculations. Furthermore, the user added features for logging application crashes and sending debug logs.
apiandroidobd-iireaderjava-api
Pho3niX90/solis_modbus
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Home Assistant HACS integration for Solis inverters
Contributions:112 releases, 1 review, 90 PRs in 1 year 4 months
hacshacs-customhacs-integrationhome-assistantmodbus
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