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Justin Robinson

@justinrobinson1

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Technical Architect and software leader driving cloud-native transformations.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical architect or engineering leadership roles focused on cloud-native modernization, mentoring teams, hands-on architecture, and opportunities to expand AI/ML capabilities in a flexible (remote/hybrid) environment.

I am a Technical Architect and seasoned software engineering leader with 15+ years building mission-critical, scalable cloud-native systems and leading successful project turnarounds. I began as a self-taught engineer after a bioinformatics discovery at university and have steadily advanced into architecture and delivery leadership roles.

My hands-on background spans Java, Spring Boot, AWS, microservice and event-driven architectures, and modern DevOps practices; I consistently combine strategic technical vision with implementation discipline to deliver measurable business value. I have led teams through legacy-to-microservice transformations, created developer productivity tools, and published open-source libraries.

I am actively expanding into AI/ML architecture—learning PyTorch, TensorFlow and Python for applied problems—and seek senior technical architect or engineering leadership roles where I can drive system modernization, mentor teams, and deliver reliable, scalable products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hyve Mobile

Jan 2025 - Sep 2025 (8 months)

Developed AWS-based Spring Boot microservices within an event-driven architecture, integrated Kafka for asynchronous processing, and led a legacy-to-platform migration for a mobile network operator to improve reliability and scalability.

Spring Boot AWS Kafka Kubernetes Event Driven Architecture Microservices CI CD

Technical Architect

Cybicom (Africa) Technologies

Jun 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Led a legacy-to-microservice transformation under a Vodacom contract, designing an 8-service microservice architecture with Camunda orchestration and delivering the project on schedule through technical leadership and developer productivity improvements.

Camunda Kubernetes Angular 14 Microservices Architecture Developer Tooling

Technical Lead

iKhokha

Dec 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Architected six AWS Lambda microservices for a self-service FICA onboarding system, implemented configurable frontend flows for A/B testing, integrated behavioral analytics and session recording, and established serverless best practices and CI/CD pipelines.

AWS Lambda AWS CDK TypeScript React Serverless Event Driven Architecture CI CD mParticle

Technical Lead

GAAP Point-of-Sale

Nov 2017 - Dec 2021 (4 years 1 month)

Served as principal architect for Unity POS and associate architect for Golo, designing a single codebase for cloud and terminal deployments, building an Angular 8 plugin framework, and establishing GitLab CI/CD with Kubernetes orchestration.

MEAN stack TypeScript Angular Kubernetes Gitlab CI Architecture Plugin Frameworks

Senior Software Engineer

Group FiO

Jan 2012 - Feb 2020 (8 years 1 month)

Delivered multi-tenant ERP optimizations, built Spring Boot wrappers for legacy systems, extended BPM tooling, and implemented big data and real-time messaging solutions to scale enterprise platforms.

Java Spring Boot Activiti Big Data ERP

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology

2004 - 2006

Activities and societies: Bioinformatics module; discovery of programming passion

Completed a BSc in Molecular Biology and discovered an interest in programming through a bioinformatics module, which led to a transition into software development.