Cape Town, South Africa
LukePetzer
DevOps / Platform Engineer
Running Kubernetes clusters, wiring up Terraform, and keeping ArgoCD deployments and CI/CD pipelines honest. A backend engineer by background, so I still think like a developer when I'm building infrastructure.
The pipeline
Push, build, sync, three clouds. Every change goes through Git.
Impact
60–80%
Backup storage cost cut with GCS lifecycle policies.
28–36%
Savings shown for multi-cloud vs. AWS-only.
3
Clouds on one Terraform platform: AWS, GCP, Vultr.
Zero
Downtime migrating every live user's envelope data.
Explore
Work
5 case studies: a multi-cloud Terraform platform, GitOps and secrets, an identity verification platform, a zero-downtime migration, and guardrails for AI agents.
Experience
DevOps at ixo, backend at BMTX and envel, and the road there: Younglings and an internship at Absa.
AI
Open to roles that include AI. I work with AI coding agents every day, and rewrote large parts of an open-source Claude Code app to add guardrails, cost limits and governance.