Craig Newton
Engineer at bol
Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolCraig Newton is an experienced cloud and platform engineer with 18 years in IT and over six years focused on AWS-powered DevOps practices, currently managing Kubernetes and cloud compute resources at bol. He combines deep hands-on skills across Java, Node.js, Go, Python and a broad DevOps stack (Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK) with a history of building CI/CD and GitLab platforms that served 900+ engineers. Craig has held senior technical leadership roles including DevSecOps Director and CTO, architecting high-scale transactional systems and self-service platform tooling such as custom Kubernetes controllers and operators. Known for pragmatic automation and security-first pipelines, he mentors engineers while shipping production-grade infrastructure. Notably, he pairs legacy systems experience (real-time telecom and VOIP) with modern cloud-native practices, enabling smooth migrations and operational resilience.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 8 and Grade 9, Grade 8 and Grade 9 at Duineveld High SchoolGrade 10, Grade 10 at Upington High SchoolSenior Certificate - Grade 12, English, Afrikaans, Economics, Geography, Biology, Mathematics, Science, Senior Certificate - Grade 12, English, Afrikaans, Economics, Geography, Biology, Mathematics, Science at Intec CollegeGrade 11, Grade 11 at Upington CollegeGrade 2, 1, Grade 2, 1 at Crew Pre-primaryGrade 7, 6, 5, 4, Grade 7, 6, 5, 4 at Op Die VoorposGrade 3, Grade 3 at Fanie Malan
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (192)
api-management10
google-cloud-platform10
dashboard10
controller10
testing10
windows10
security10
scheduling10
consul10
gatekeeper10
microservices10
monitoring10
mesos10
javascript10
gcloud10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
newtondev/inidb-linux
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes, 7 comments in 6 months
newtondev/mrz-parser
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
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