Berno Kleinhans
Lace Opperations Lead And SRE
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBerno Kleinhans is an operations and SRE leader with 11 years of experience building and managing production infrastructure, databases, and cloud-native platforms from Raleigh, NC. Currently leading Lace operations at IOHK, he runs SRE and DevX teams deploying Cardano-related services on EKS, while shifting QA left through SDET enablement and automating monitoring migrations to third‑party solutions. His background spans MySQL/Percona DBAship, SAN and storage management, Kubernetes tooling, CI/CD and automation (Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins), and open-source conformance work for CNCF k8s conformance and prow on EKS. Known for combining low-level database and systems expertise with pragmatic leadership, he also experiments with LLM-powered knowledge capture and developer-facing Claude skills to generate Storybook tests—demonstrating a bias toward practical automation and knowledge sharing.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA tourism management, BA tourism management at Pretoria Technikon - Pretoria, South AfricaMSSQL2012 Administration, MSSQL2012 Administration at ONLC - Raleigh, USAMCSD, MCSD at Hatfield Business College - Pretoria, South AfricaJava Development, Java Development at Westminster College of Computing - London, England
Github Skills (45)
kubernetes10
wallet10
in-progress10
testing10
key-management10
hardware10
gcp10
kubernetes-deployment10
ada10
infrastructure10
cardano10
sdk10
plutus10
velero9
terraform9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bernokl/salting
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:30 PRs, 90 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
bernokl/home
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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