Resume
I have a passion for problem solving, building things and making businesses succeed. I’m madly curious by heart, so I’m very hungry for knowledge and you will always find me trying and testing out new things to stay ahead of the game.
Experience
Overview
| Company | Position | Sector | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| BVNK | Senior DevOps Engineer | Fintech | 2022 - current |
| Bloqtech Solutions | DevOps Engineer | Fintech | 2021 - 2022 |
| Mama Money | Platform Engineer | Fintech | 2020 - 2021 |
| JUMO | Systems Development Engineer | Fintech | 2017 - 2020 |
| Amazon Web Services | Big Data, Cloud Support | Cloud | 2015 - 2017 |
| Amazon Web Services | EC2, Cloud Support | Cloud | 2014 - 2015 |
| Computicket | Linux Sysadmin | eCommerce | 2014 - 2014 |
| AOS | Linux / Network Admin | Fintech | 2013 - 2014 |
| Imperial Online | Snr. Linux Engineer | ISP | 2011 – 2013 |
| Imperial Online | Linux Engineer | ISP | 2009 - 2011 |
| Imperial Online | Desktop Support | ISP | 2008 - 2009 |
| Conexus | Helpdesk Support | Telecoms | 2007 - 2008 |
Bloqtech Solutions
| Position | DevOps Engineer |
| Duration | May 2021 – Present |
| Description | Design, Build and Scale our Platform on AWS. Our focus is on blockchain based services, so most services are built from the ground up. |
Job Role:
As a DevOps Engineer my focus is to enable developers to deploy their changes more frequently, safely and with confidence. Ensure that theres no blockers and ensure that our platform remains reliable as well as building infrastructure that can scale.
Mama Money
| Position | Platform Engineer (DevOps Engineer) |
| Duration | March 2020 – April 2021 |
| Description | Design, Build and Scale Mama Money’s Platform on AWS. Build dev tooling for developers and automation for our platform in order for features to be rolled out safer and faster. |
Job Role:
As a Platform Engineer I had to migrate, automate, build and design infrastructure for our financial services platform for scale, as the organization grows and to meet the demand as it increases.
JUMO
| Position | Systems Development Engineer |
| Duration | March 2017 – February 2020 |
| Description | Design, Build, Scale, Automates JUMO’s Financial Services Platform on AWS. |
Job Role:
As a SysDev Engineer I had to automate, build and design infrastructure for our financial services platform for scale, as the organization grows across regions worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Developing, Managing and Troubleshooting JUMO’s Environments Hosted in AWS
- Building and Maintaining Secure Communication Infrastructure to JUMO’s Partners
- Identifying and Implementing Tooling to Support JUMO’s Development Team and Production Environment.
- Identifying, Architecting, Developing, Automating, and Refining Processes to allow JUMO to run a Highly Reliable System in AWS.
- Develop Monitoring and Reporting for JUMO’s Infrastructure
- Collaborate with Engineering to Optimize the Database Infrastructure
- Documenting Operational Procedures and Best Practice System Behaviors
- Work close with the Data Engineering Department as I am familiar with Big Data Technologies
Technologies worked with:
- Docker for AWS (Docker Swarm)
- EKS (Kubernetes on AWS)
- API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Elasticsearch, EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, Route53, VPC, Cross Account Delegation, Kinesis.
- Jenkins, Spinnaker, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog
- Planetarium (In-house developed PaaS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
| Position | Cloud Support Engineer, BigData |
| Duration | October 2014 – July 2017 |
| Description | AWS Premium Support on EC2 Linux and Big Data Services on AWS. |
Computicket
| Position | Linux Sysadmin |
| Duration | March 2014 – October 2014 |
| Description | Manage Computicket’s Infrastructure |
Automated Outsourcing Services (AOS)
| Position | Linux/Network Admin |
| Duration | October 2013 – February 2014 |
| Description | Manage AOS’s Infrastructure and Network |
Imperial Online
| Position | Snr. Linux Engineer, Internet Services |
| Duration | December 2011 – October 2013 |
| Description | Linux Services, Hosting, Solutions Providing, Installation, Maintenance, Server Support |
Imperial Online
| Position | Linux Engineer, Internet Services |
| Duration | December 2009 – October 2011 |
| Description | Linux Server Support |
Imperial Online
| Position | Desktop Support |
| Duration | March 2008 – September 2009 |
| Description | Desktop Support |
Conexus
| Position | Helpdesk Agent (Call Centre for Imperial Online) |
| Duration | May 2007 – February 2008 |
| Description | Helpdesk Agent for Imperial Online |
Skills
I primarily work with the following:
- AWS Cloud:
- Compute: EC2, Lambda, AutoScaling
- Databases: RDS, DynamoDB
- Storage: S3, Glacier, EFS
- Networking: API Gateway, VPC, Route53
- CICD: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- Analytics: EMR, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, DataPipeline
- Security: IAM, Secrets Manager, ACM
- App Integration: SNS, SQS
- Containers: ECS, EKS, ECR
- Scripting:
- Bash
- Python
- Linux:
- Deployment, System Development, Administering
- Python:
- Scripting
- Lambda Functions
- Flask for Basic Web Based Applications
- Basic to Intermediate Python Apps (not a developer, but know my way around)
- Automation
- CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, DroneIO, Concourse, Bash
- DevOps
- Containers
- Use docker for almost every container runtime environment
- Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and ECS for Orchestrators
- Solutions Architecture
- Open Source
- Knowledge Sharing
- Monitoring and Metrics
- Systems Adminstration
- Making Customers happy is a big thing for me
Hobbies
I am super curious and love learning new things, so you will find me on twitter, sharing most of my blogposts that I write about tech topics on blog.ruanbekker.com, sysadmins.co.za and for raspberry pi based projects on blog.pistack.co.za and I share most of my code on my githhub repository.