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.
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.
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.
GCP
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Linux
TCP/IP
DBA
nginx
HAProxy
Python
Go
Rust
SQL
Requirements Analysis
Javascript
HTML
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
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
Open Source
Scuba Diving
Freediving
Reading / Writing