Open to senior roles & contract work
Thulani Hlongwane
Senior Software Engineer
Java · Spring Boot · Angular · Python · Azure
Johannesburg, South Africa · Remote or on-site
About
I’m a senior software engineer with 20 years of experience building Java, Angular and Python applications for banking, insurance and telecoms, at organisations including Investec, Momentum, MTN and Rand Merchant Bank.
I trained in Computer Systems Engineering because I wanted to know how computers work from the hardware up. I’ve always liked taking systems apart to see how they work, and that curiosity turned into a career shipping production software end to end: Spring Boot services, Angular front-ends, the data layer and the CI/CD pipelines that deliver them.
I’m now growing towards software and solution architecture, and I’m exploring machine learning and how it will shape the systems we build next.
Away from the keyboard I keep up with new technology, play and watch football, try new restaurants and travel whenever I can.
- 20+
- years shipping software
- 3
- industries: banking, insurance & telecoms
- Full-stack
- Spring Boot back-ends, Angular front-ends
Experience
-
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2019 – Present
Investec Bank Banking
Projects: Oneview, RFI
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Senior Java Developer
May 2014 – Oct 2019
Momentum (MMI Holdings) via Guruhut Insurance & financial services
Projects: Fastlane, Lab Services, Onboarding API
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Senior Java Developer
Dec 2011 – Apr 2014
MTN via Guruhut Telecoms
Projects: MTN Active
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Intermediate Java Developer
Sep 2008 – Dec 2011
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) via Guruhut Banking
Projects: Karta
Earlier roles
- Intermediate Java Developer, Accenture: MTN LoadedApr – Aug 2008
- Specialist Developer, Transnet Freight Rail: IWHSSJan – Mar 2008
- Analyst Programmer, Spoornet: IWHSS2007
- Bursary Intern, Spoornet2006
Skills
Languages
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- SQL
Back-end
- Spring Boot
- Spring
- Jersey (JAX-RS)
- Swagger / OpenAPI
- Play!
- Lucene
Front-end
- Angular
- Vue.js
Data & persistence
- JPA
- Hibernate
- MyBatis
- Flyway
- Liquibase
Cloud & DevOps
- Microsoft Azure
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Chef
Build & test
- Maven
- Gradle
- JUnit
- Selenium WebDriver
Also worked with
- Struts
- JSF
- GWT
- Eclipse RCP
- Ant
- BIRT
- JasperReports
- Ubuntu Linux
Education & training
Education
- BTech, Computer Systems Engineering Tshwane University of Technology 2007 – 2008
- National Diploma, Computer Systems Engineering Tshwane University of Technology 2003 – 2005
- Matric St Barnabas College 2002
Training
- Implementing an Azure Data SolutionTorque IT2021
- Spring TrainingPivotal Academy2018
- Ubuntu LinuxJumping Bean2015
- Java J2EEVan Zyl and Pritchard2006
- JAD Facilitation Skills (James Martin)J3B Solutions2006
Let’s work together
I’m available for senior engineering roles and contract projects: Java and Spring Boot back-ends, Angular front-ends, Azure, and the CI/CD that ties it all together. Tell me what you’re building.