Lyle Henkeman
Software Engineer at Takealot.com
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorLyle Henkeman is a data engineer and DevOps/MLOps specialist based in Gelderland, Netherlands, bringing roughly nine years of hands-on experience building scalable data platforms and automation-first infrastructure. He has led and delivered across industries—from media and retail to telecom—architecting data lakes, data meshes, and data warehouses on AWS with Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, CDK, and Terraform. In recent roles at Essent, VodafoneZiggo, Alliander, and DPG Media, he has translated stakeholder needs into technical roadmaps, led data-engineering teams, and steered infra-as-code initiatives for secure, scalable data ecosystems. His track record includes migrating EMR and building data platforms that enable ML and analytics, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks to improve reliability and time-to-insight. A hands-on leader who mentors engineers and champions end-to-end solutions—from data ingestion to governance and monitoring—he combines technical depth with a clear focus on performance and operational excellence.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
python-3-68
intellisense8
pylint7
testing6
linter5
jupyter5
python5
visual-studio-code5
typescript4
refactorings4
docker-machine4
openflow4
multiarch4
editor4
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LyleH/references
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
LyleH/docker_load_balancer
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 days
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