Experience

DataProphet

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Worked in the Edge Team, developing software that collects, processes and streams data from factories to the cloud. - Improved CI/CD and release processes of various projects - Refactored real-time computation platform - Support and development of edge stack Worked in the Edge Team, developing software that collects, processes and streams data from factories to the cloud. - Improved CI/CD and release processes of various projects - Refactored real-time computation platform - Support and development of edge stack



Momentum Investments

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  Worked as a DevOps Engineer doing both DevOps and development of internal development tools: - Developed an automated vulnerability scanner and web frontend which automatically discovers, catalogues and scans docker containers for security vulnerabilities. Used to track and trace the security of a large part of the Investments infrastructure. - Took over the development of one of the core internal development build tools used to deploy projects to AWS. The tool allowed developers to maintain their own AWS infrastructure, in a validated and secure manner. Used Terraform in the backend to perform deployments. - Performed setup and maintenance of both AWS (EKS, EC2, Cognito, S3, SSM, Route 53) and on-premises Linux infrastructure



University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Lead: Full stack Developer and Linux Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  Along with my previous duties (see below), I acted as team lead for the TechTeam. My responsibilities included the following:- Identification of new team projects, decisions on project timelines and overseeing their development- Code review of all major projects- Developing a new user management portal and code auto-marking system (FitchFork) for the Department. Successfully implemented and migrated from legacy systems.- Handling hardware procurement- Training of new TechTeam staff

• Full stack Developer and Linux Systems Administrator

  • Feb 2018 - Dec 2020

  While studying at the University of Pretoria I also worked as a systems administrator and full-stack developer for the Department of Computer Science. Working in a small team, we managed and developed the infrastructure that several critical services in the department operated on. My responsibilities included the following:- Administration of several critical services for the Department of Computer Science including LDAP and Kerberos central authentication, course websites, auto-marker facilities and websites for research groups- Designed the architecture and set up the MIT high-performance cluster which is used by post-graduate students to perform research on big-data machine learning applications- Administrated several hundred lab computers running Linux with central LDAP authentication and home folder hosting for use by students- Maintained the main CS website as well as the auto-marker assignments website