Lunga Sizani
Engineering Manager at nCino, Inc.
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLunga Sizani is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across product-facing and enterprise domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, React, Docker and CI/CD with systems architecture and product roadmap strategy, having led engineering functions at 2U and nCino. Lunga emphasizes people-first leadership—coaching, mentorship and career development—while aligning team culture to business outcomes and psychological safety. He’s also an entrepreneur who co-founded a bootstrapped South African travel club, demonstrating an ability to translate technical skill into customer-focused ventures. Credited with cross-functional delivery and a background in cybersecurity and executive leadership, he blends technical depth with an unusual emphasis on human-centered engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma, Software Development, Post Graduate Diploma, Software Development at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland
English, Xhosa
Stackoverflow
125reputation
1kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
information-management9
baobab9
php8
authorization8
solidus8
laravel8
ecommerce8
storefront7
ruby7
rails7
docker7
ruby-on-rails6
model-view-controller6
activeadmin6
devise6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lsizani/CommunityWealth
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 109 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
getsmarter/hackathon-inajam
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Find what you need when you're in a jam.
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
needjam
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.