Clifford Hansen
Full-Stack Backend Developer Dev Ops at SACAP (The South African College of Applied Psychology)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolClifford Hansen is a seasoned full-stack backend developer and DevOps engineer with 14 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on PHP, MySQL, and Linux work. He has evolved his toolkit to include Go and Python while designing secure, standardized server configurations and CI/CD/deployment strategies using Ansible and GitHub tooling. Clifford has repeatedly led code reviews, mentored teams, and architected resilient, low-latency systems for ISPs and enterprise clients, blending systems administration with application development. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs practical infrastructure security skills with a developer’s mindset and a knack for automating repeatable ops tasks. Outside work he applies the same tinkering curiosity to home automation and the outdoors, a sign of his pragmatic, systems-oriented problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Std 6 - 9, English, Afrikaans, Science, Mathermatics, Technical Drawing, Electronics, Computer Science, Std 6 - 9, English, Afrikaans, Science, Mathermatics, Technical Drawing, Electronics, Computer Science at John Oor Technical High SchoolMatric, English, Afrikaans, Science, Mathermatics, Business Economics, Computer Science, Matric, English, Afrikaans, Science, Mathermatics, Business Economics, Computer Science at DamelinDiploma, Sound Engineering, Diploma, Sound Engineering at Bournemouth and Poole College
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
848reputation
20kreached
14answers
1question
zend-framework
top-5%
Github Skills (148)
python10
energy10
ubuntu10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
smtp-client10
garden10
iot10
synchronization10
documentation10
glow10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cliffordwhansen/home-assistant.io
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
:blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
blueuser-documentationassistanthacshome-automation
cliffordwhansen/home-assistant
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
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