Adrian Moisey
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at DevOps Cape Town
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorAdrian Moisey is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in the Western Cape with 14 years in systems and infrastructure engineering and over eight focused on SRE. He currently leads reliability efforts at Salesloft, having progressed from systems engineering to staff-level ownership of platform scalability and incident resilience. Adrian is an active open-source contributor in the Kubernetes autoscaling space—improving the Vertical Pod Autoscaler—and has practical DevOps experience optimizing deployments and build pipelines for projects like devopsdays-web. He blends hands-on systems work with community leadership as an organizer of DevOps Cape Town and DevOpsDays Cape Town, bringing both technical depth and ecosystem stewardship. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who not only hardens clusters and networking but also surfaces small tooling and script changes that materially speed CI/CD and reduce toil.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
hugo10
docker10
python10
testing10
dockers10
go10
github-api10
rest-client10
kubernetes-pods10
git-pull10
rest-api10
pullrequest10
devops10
scripting9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
devopsdays/devopsdays-web
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
This is the website for devopsdays
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:117 reviews, 382 commits, 726 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to improving the website's infrastructure and deployment processes. Their work included optimizing the Docker setup for faster build times, integrating features to improve Slack unfurls, and modifying scripts for build and deployment. They also addressed HTML issues, and updated the Docker image for a consistent build environment.
devopsdays
kubernetes/autoscaler
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:266 reviews, 40 PRs, 1002 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adrian's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Their work involved modifying the recommender and updater components, introducing the "ignored-vpa-object-namespaces" feature, improving the admission-controller and enhancing the overall performance and reliability of the VPA. The user also added tests to ensure the correct functionality of the admission controller. These changes suggest a focus on improving the functionality and management of the VPA.
k8skubernetesautoscaling
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