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Christian Witts

Christian Witts

Director of DevOps @ Impact

South Africa, US
+27724369170
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Background


About

About

Running a lean team of engineers focused on maintaining data centers, and multiple cloud providers, and ensuring cost effective deployments across a bevy of data stores, and environments.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Director of DevOps

    May, 2017 - Present

    Running a lean team of engineers focused on maintaining data centers, and multiple cloud providers, and ensuring cost effective deployments across a bevy of data stores, and environments.

  • Engineering / DevOps

    Mar, 2016 - Apr, 20171 year 1 month

    Building frameworks, infrastructure, and solutions to enable other development teams to be as agile, fault tolerant, and as scalable as possible.

  • Dev Ops / Full Stack Engineer / M2M Embedded Developer

    May, 2012 - Feb, 20163 years 8 months

    Building and maintaining systems from the ground up. From provisioning servers, setting up environments, building web-servers and software stacks.
    Developing reporting and BI solutions with Python, Tornado, MongoDB, JS/HTML5/CSS3.
    Developing M2M Embedded application in Go utilizing MQTT/CoAP as the transportation mechanism.
    Developing back-end APIs with Python and the Falcon Framework, running on Google Cloud.

  • Business Intelligence

    Nov, 2006 - May, 20125 years 6 months

    A small excerpt: Developing applications for data management and monitoring in Python mainly and some PL/SQL for various Oracle databases (Production / Development / Data Warehouse). Handling of data loads and reporting done via automation in most cases and the occasional hand task.

  • Helpdesk Operator

    Apr, 2005 - Oct, 20061 year 6 months

    Helpdesk Operator for a Credit Bureau servicing both Internal and External clients not limited to network / internet support, credit bureau software support and loan administration package support. I was a master level operator at the time I moved to the Data Operations department.

  • Sales Consultant

    Mar, 2003 - Jun, 20033 months

    Sold commodities as investments to overseas buyers in the USA.

  • Barman/Manager

    Dec, 2000 - Jan, 20021 year 1 month

    Worked as a Barman and later Duty Manager for a Bar.

Skills

Skills

  • DevOps

    GCP

    Kubernetes

    GitHub Actions

    Jenkins

  • SysOps

    Linux

    TCP/IP

    DBA

    nginx

    HAProxy

  • Backend

    Python

    Go

    Rust

    SQL

  • Management

    Requirements Analysis

  • Front-End

    Javascript

    HTML

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

    Dec, 2012 - Dec, 2015

  • Information Technology, Undergrad: Data Metrics, University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

    Dec, 2009 - Dec, 2010

  • Internet Development (Java / (X)HTML / SQL / Linux), IDS, Computer Training Institute

    Dec, 2002 - Dec, 2003

Publications

Publications

  • The CAP Theorem of Humans, DevOpsDays Cape Town 2017

    Published on: Nov 06, 2017

    No distributed system is safe from failures, and neither is your organisation. Is it possible to extend the CAP theorem to people and gain a Consistent, Available, and Partition Tolerant workforce in the face of disparate levels of leadership, anachronisms, and a million priorities ?

    https://youtu.be/cAIjLH6MgCY?t=20s

Interests

Interests

  • Open Source

  • Scuba Diving

  • Freediving

  • Reading / Writing