Andrew Basson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Makersite
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndrew Basson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms and developer tooling across large-scale product organizations. Based in Berlin, he has driven major migrations to Kubernetes and Terraform, reduced AWS costs by double-digit percentages, and cut on-call pages by 70% through self-healing automation and incident remediation. He combines hands-on infrastructure work—EC2/EKS lifecycle, GitLab CI/CD, Helm conversions—with leadership coaching that produced internal promotions and smoother operational ownership via developer portals and PaaS rollouts. An engineer with a Mechanical Engineering background, he brings a systems-thinking mindset to SRE problems and an entrepreneurial streak from running an e‑commerce business.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechanical Engineering at University of Cape TownMatric Excemption, Matric Excemption at Rondebosch Boys High School
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (200)
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accelerometer10
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internationalization10
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laravel10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bassco/ansible-vim
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 8 months
vimansiblevim-pluginneovimhighlighting
bassco/klipper-configs
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:182 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
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