Deon Taljaard
Staff Software Engineer at SUSE
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDeon Taljaard is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience designing and modernizing cloud-native systems, particularly on AWS. He combines hands-on backend development in Java, Scala and Python with solution architecture skills and is actively adding Rust to his toolkit. Deon has led developer experience and backend improvement initiatives at Adevinta and now contributes at SUSE, bringing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer productivity. As a co-founder of a SaaS startup, he also has product and team-building experience—launching AI-driven retail and security products and implementing DevOps practices end-to-end. Colleagues describe him as a technical lead who pairs deep engineering craft with an eye for continuous improvement across teams and platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Pretoria High School, High School at Hoërskool Zwartkop
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (28)
continuous-integration10
testing10
aws10
lambda10
localstack9
python9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
dotty9
developer-tools9
serverless9
scala8
aws-cloud8
scala-native7
mongoose7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deontaljaard/http4s-mongo
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 months
starting-pointpointhttp4smongoosemongodb
deontaljaard/coding-problems
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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