Cape Town, South Africa
Aboutthe engineer
I'm a DevOps / platform engineer at ixo: running Kubernetes clusters, wiring up Terraform, and keeping ArgoCD deployments and CI/CD pipelines honest.
I came to infrastructure from backend engineering. I started with a Spring learnership at Younglings, interned on an enterprise Java codebase at Absa, then spent over three years as a software engineer at envel, where I also taught myself Terraform as costs ramped up. After that I built an identity verification platform at BMTX, and I'm now ixo's platform engineer.
I live and work in Cape Town, South Africa.
How I work
Root cause over duct tape
I'd rather fix the root cause than duct-tape it.
A developer building infrastructure
My background is backend engineering (Java/Kotlin, Spring, PostgreSQL/MongoDB, gRPC/REST), so I still think like a developer when I'm building infrastructure.
New stacks, fast
I pick up new stacks fast and don't get precious about tools. At envel I taught myself Terraform and infra work from scratch and built out the company's entire cloud infrastructure.
Off the clock
Outside of work I'm usually gaming, which trained the same patience needed for chasing down a flaky pipeline at 2am.