A seasoned technical leader blending over a decade of expertise in Cloud & DevOps engineering with specialized competence in security, designing resilient cloud infrastructures, streamlining operations and deployments, and optimizing operational efficiency. Known for a passion for innovation and a drive for technical excellence, I am dedicated to leveraging my leadership experience to elevate teams and drive impactful outcomes.
With Lepaya being an immensely fast growing scale-up, they recruited me as a Principal Engineer to help guide their various tech teams. Primary expectations from me was to leverage my experience to help with software and infrastructure architecture designs that would allow Lepaya to continue to scale indefinitely with the growth of their product, to improve how teams that are dependant on one another can work more efficiently together, implement and refine processes to increase development velocity and to improve the quality of work delivered. Soon after joining Lepaya they recognised my affinity for leadership and promoted me to Engineering Manager.
During my tenure, I have been able to successfully streamline our development processes by optimizing developer velocity, enhancing testing and deployment procedures, and fostering a high-performance culture. With my guidance, I have empowered the development team to excel at all levels and deliver outstanding results, which earned accolades from our stakeholders.
As a trailblazing leader at this Fintech consultancy, I expanded their technological perspective by advocating for cloud-based solutions to enhance their customer offerings. With mastery in DevOps and Cloud technology, I guided the department into uncharted territory, securing several new clients, driving successful project outcomes and in doing so created many new employment opportunities.
Led and mentored a team of AI automation experts, bolstering their project delivery and deadline management. By leveraging prior leadership expertise and implementing agile methodologies, our team achieved improved efficiency and increased confidence in their abilities, enabling them to reach new heights.
Utilising my expertise in emerging technologies, successfully drove the adoption of innovative technology within a young startup in an established industry, resulting in a sustained 50% annual growth rate over three consecutive years, laying the foundation for long lasting success.
As a Team Lead, orchestrated automation and development efforts to optimise and modernise the delivery of automation systems while reducing operational expenses. Proactively refined team processes and protocols to uphold impeccable standards and ensure exceptional quality assurance. Leveraged cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and deliver enhanced value propositions to stakeholders.
Founded and led a cloud technology company that identified and addressed operational inefficiencies for local businesses. Provided customized solutions to address specific client challenges, resulting in accelerated service delivery and reduced IT operational expenses.
I undertook the responsibility of providing technical consultancy to the team in assessing and identifying areas of improvement for their systems to enhance team and race performance. In this role, I meticulously analyzed the usage of data and designed innovative solutions utilizing cutting-edge technologies to elevate the overall performance of the team.
As a Second Line Support Technician, I oversaw the daily IT operations of a large multinational corporation. My responsibilities included managing cloud-based desktop environments, implementing VoIP solutions, fortifying firewall systems, streamlining processes through automation, and enhancing workflows to maximize efficiency.
Installed, serviced, and maintained complex computer networks for small to medium businesses, ensuring seamless operations and mitigating potential downtime. Proven track record of providing swift, efficient installation, servicing, and maintenance for a diverse range of computer systems and server environments, while serving as the go-to point of contact for organizations' IT support needs.
Miss Pauling is a Discord bot that provides a variety of tools for the TF2 South Africa community. It is written in Python and uses the Discord.py library. Miss Paulings primary function is to manage the administration and orchestration of a handful of game servers and to organise "pick-up" style games where players can come together to subscribe to play a competitve game together.
RSA.TF is a community of South African TF2 players. The community is run by a small group of volunteers who organise events, manage servers, and provide a platform for players to meet and play together. I was responsible for the day-to-day running of the community, planning events, administering the game servers, developing the tooling we used and more.
Serverless TF2 was created to work with Miss Pauling for the rsa.tf community. It would allow us to spin up TF2 servers on demand for use with our pickup games. The programming used Python, Terraform, and the Serverless Framework. The Infrastructure used CloudWatch, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate, ECR, EFS, EventBridge, Lambda and API Gateway.
Experienced in guiding and mentoring teams to achieve high performance. Skilled at providing guidance and direction to team members, fostering collaboration, and promoting a positive work environment.
Strong ability in strategic planning, setting goals, and making informed decisions that drive organizational success and efficiency.
Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining stable cloud architectures
Strong understanding of DevOps principles, tools, and best practices. Proven success using Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Ansible and more
Skilled at automation through scripting languages (Python, Bash, JS, etc)
Proficient in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, Route53, IAM, VPC, and more
Equally adept at working independently to take initiative to solve problems or collaborate effectively with others as part of a team. Capable of leading and mentoring others, and providing guidance and direction to team members.
Awarded the "Best Young Professional" for my hard work and dedication to the company