Cobus Bernard
Senior Developer Advocate
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCobus Bernard is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS with over a decade of hands-on experience helping teams adopt DevOps, containerization, and secure cloud practices. He combines practitioner-level knowledge—having built C#/Java backends, mobile apps, and a Steam-released game—with a track record of modernizing infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and automation to cut service delivery times from weeks to minutes. At AWS he crafts opinionated guidance and builds developer communities across regions, drawing on prior experience as a customer in FinTech, HealthCare and online gaming. A community builder at heart, he founded the Cape Town DevOps meetup and co-organises DevOpsDays Cape Town, and runs a consulting vehicle (Blue Battleship) to showcase practical DevOps solutions. Based in Redmond, he blends developer empathy with platform-level security and deployment expertise, often favoring pragmatic, repeatable automation over theoretical purity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
N.Dip Eng (E&E), Computer Systems, N.Dip Eng (E&E), Computer Systems at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyB.Eng (E&E) [Incomplete], Electrical / Electronic Engineering, B.Eng (E&E) [Incomplete], Electrical / Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
135reputation
56kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (97)
terraform10
graph10
static-files10
aws10
aws-ecs10
terraform-cloud9
codebuild9
hashicorp9
amazon-ecs9
declarative9
runner9
aws-copilot9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
hcl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cobusbernard/cobusbernard
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
cobusbernard/github-meetup-africa-demo
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Public version of the demo for the Github Africa Meetup.
Contributions:37 commits, 7 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 days
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