Bearnard Hibbins
SRE Lead at Praekelt.org
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolBearnard Hibbins is an SRE Lead based in the Western Cape with 14 years of experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and platform services. He has led multi-tenant PaaS initiatives and service broker development at Praekelt.org, applying Infrastructure as Code and container orchestration (DC/OS, Marathon, Mesos, Kubernetes) alongside monitoring with Prometheus. His background includes building backend systems in Go for a multi-region crypto platform and long-term leadership in operations and distributed systems at Yola, blending Python, Lua and IaC tooling. Comfortable across the stack from embedded and telecoms early work to modern orchestration and observability, he combines hands-on engineering with platform strategy to help teams self-serve and scale. An oft-overlooked strength is his cross-domain fluency—from VOIP and embedded systems to cloud-native services—enabling pragmatic solutions in complex operational environments.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
KingsBSc, Physics, Electronics, Computer Science, incomplete, BSc, Physics, Electronics, Computer Science, incomplete at Rhodes University
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Github Skills (132)
gcp10
gunicorn10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
aws10
django9
helm9
linode9
iot-core9
dockerfile9
docker-container9
k8s9
celery9
nginx9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
yola/omnibus-nginx-openresty
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
nginxomnibuspackagingopenresty
bearnard/testapp
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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