David Bezuidenhout
Systems Dev Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Bezuidenhout is a systems-focused engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in Linux, DevOps and AWS support, now serving as a Systems Dev Engineer II at AWS from Western Cape, South Africa. He progressed through multiple AWS support roles specializing in deployment and DevOps services—CloudFormation, ECS, OpsWorks (SME), and the Code suite—helping customers design and troubleshoot production systems at scale. Prior to AWS he spent nearly a decade as a Linux engineer in web and mail hosting, giving him deep operational expertise across infrastructure, networking and automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving that balances customer urgency with robust, repeatable solutions. That blend of long-term ops experience and platform-level support work means he often sees systemic fixes where others implement one-off patches.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Hoërskool WaterkloofUniversity of Pretoria
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (196)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
garden10
3d-printer10
iot10
gateway10
makers10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
privacy10
firewalld10
raspberry-pi10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tinuva/terraform-home-net
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
tinuva/firewalld-formula
Aug 2014 - Feb 2020
Salt Stack Formula to set up and configure Firewalld, dynamically managed firewall with support for network/firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 6 months
firewall-rulessaltsecurityzonestrust
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