Hope you are visiting while not in your Dark Playground

About

Originally from Paarl, South Africa, I started playing with computers during my high school period. Turbo Pascal was the bomb and breaking the MS-DOS 6.22 was evening entertainment.

Opinions expressed here are mine.

Career

  • March 2016 - Current

    HealthQ Technologies:
    Automating & managing everything AWS with Chef, Ansible and Terraform.

  • March 2016 - Current

    DevOpsDays Cape Town:
    Started organising the the yearly conference.

  • May 2015 - Current

    DevOps Cape Town:
    Started organising the the monthly meetup group.

  • March 2015 - February 2016

    Blazingchilli:
    Building distributed platform using C# / .Net. Automating all things with Ansible, Chef, Jenkins and Powershell.

  • April 2014 - January 2015

    LightSail Education:
    Technical Team Lead

  • April 2013 - March 2014

    ACI Worldwide:
    ISO 8583

  • August 2010 - March 2013

    Globak Kinetic:
    Went over to the darkside, aka Microsoft.

  • November 2005 - January 2010

    Redshift Digital: Introduced to Linux, ran Gentoo for 4 years, built Java based apps with SQL server and some other bits.

  • January 2005 - November 2005

    Student:
    National Diploma in Electrical Engineering: Computer systems @ Department of Engineer

Contact

Send me an email if you would like to get in touch, hire me for your next project, have questions or feedback on my work, or just want to say hello.

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