Buchan Milne
Senior Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolBuchan Milne is a Senior Systems Development Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available Unix-based infrastructure and directory services. Based in the Western Cape, he has spent the last several years at Amazon Web Services automating database operations for EC2, combining deep systems knowledge with scalable automation. His background includes leadership and specialist roles across Telkom’s ISP operations where he drove HA clustering, monitoring, and software deployment practices. Comfortable at the intersection of operations and engineering, he focuses on repeatable, auditable automation that reduces operational toil. He holds a B.Eng from Stellenbosch University and brings a pragmatic systems-architect mindset forged in both enterprise and cloud environments. A not-obvious strength is his long-term continuity across the same industry stack, giving him rare institutional knowledge of carrier and cloud operational patterns.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, B.Eng at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
command-line-interface10
ruby10
boot10
linux10
cli10
aws-cli10
amazon10
initramfs10
amazon-web-services10
homebrew10
aws10
application-launcher9
launcher9
plugin9
event-driven9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bgmilne/devmon-weathermap
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 4 pushes, 5 tags in 1 year 5 months
bgmilne/aws-cli
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 months
aws-clicommand-line-interfaceamazonweb-servicesamazon-web-services
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