Architect at Capitec Bank | 17+ years building reliable, scalable systems
I design and build high-availability systems with a focus on SRE principles, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps culture. My career spans from hands-on development to architectural leadership across fintech, backup/disaster recovery, and ed-tech industries.
- Site Reliability Engineering — Designing systems for 99.99%+ uptime with proper SLOs, monitoring, and incident response
- Cloud Architecture — AWS-first infrastructure with cost optimization, auto-scaling, and multi-region deployments
- Platform Engineering — Building internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared libraries
- AI-Powered Tooling — Building LLM-powered code review and documentation generation systems
- System Modernization — Migrating monoliths to microservices with API gateways and event-driven patterns
Languages
Cloud & Infrastructure
Observability & Data
Messaging & Databases
AI & Automation
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| prometheus-logstash-exporter | Prometheus metrics exporter for Logstash monitoring | Go |
| ai-codebase-scribe | AI-powered documentation generator using multiple LLM providers | Python |
| tbutil-tb-cache-manager | Caching abstraction library for .NET applications | C# |
| tbutil-tb-logging-dotnet | Structured JSON logging built on Serilog | C# |
| tbutil-tb-messaging-sqs | AWS SQS messaging utilities for .NET | C# |
- Capitec Bank — Architect for mobile app platform and SRE (2023–Present)
- Redstor — Platform engineering for disaster recovery systems (2022–2023)
- UNi4 Online — Built cloud-first ed-tech platform from scratch (2020–2022)
- Zapper — 5+ years as DevOps/SRE for fintech payments platform (2014–2020)
When I'm not architecting systems, I explore generative AI for creative projects — producing AI-generated art and music. Check out my experiments on YouTube and TikTok.