Christiaan Vermeulen
Principal Engineer at The Brief
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristiaan Vermeulen is a DevOps and Cloud Native principal engineer with 10+ years of experience building programmable infrastructure, self-service developer platforms, and Kubernetes Operators that run everything from high-throughput retail workloads to tiny static frontends. He began his career in PABX support and full‑stack development, which informs a pragmatic approach to platform design and developer enablement. Christiaan has led teams and influenced product and hiring strategy at Container Solutions and Picsart, delivering chaos engineering, canary/blue-green deployments, multi-region clustering and Cluster API solutions. He’s built tooling to simplify serverless deployments and make CloudWatch logs searchable, and has applied GEO mapping APIs commercially across South Africa and the UK. Based in the UK and transitioning from South African roots, he prefers Vim and spaces, enjoys farming and DIY, and is intentionally closing gaps in his Azure and networking skills.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Vereeniging Gimnasium
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (85)
javascript10
nodejs10
css10
react10
math9
codebase9
kubernetes-resources9
operator-sdk9
nginx9
chaos-engineering9
api8
chaos8
golang8
serverless8
kong8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ContainerSolutions/redis-cluster-operator
May 2022 - Jun 2022
A Kubernetes Operator for running Production Redis Clusters
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 103 commits in 1 month
redisclustersoperatorredis-clusterskubernetes
compliance-framework/agent
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Continuous Compliance CLI
Contributions:15 releases, 51 reviews, 39 PRs in 4 months
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