Dewald Viljoen
Principal Engineer at RVU
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarDewald Viljoen is a Principal Engineer based in Bath with 11 years of experience delivering resilient platform, infrastructure and reliability solutions across cloud-native environments. He has led SRE and platform teams to cut cloud spend dramatically, transition from EC2 to managed EKS, and build automated incident response, logging and metrics pipelines that improved reliability while slashing costs. Equally comfortable in architecture and hands-on delivery, he mentors teams, shapes technical vision, and turns short-term work into maintainable systems designed to grow with the business. His background spans developer and consultant roles in South Africa to platform engineering in London, with deep practical expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Rust, NixOS and Linux. Known for marrying pragmatic engineering with sustainability, he favors small upfront design investments that prevent tech debt and create long-term dividends. Outside work he describes himself playfully as a “fluffy, code-smith, gentle-pony adventurer,” reflecting a curious, low-drama approach to complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (170)
dashboard10
grafana10
build-automation10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
linux10
data-visualization10
kubernetes10
integrate10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DewaldV/dotfiles
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:89 commits, 82 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years 2 months
DewaldV/kata02-karate-chop
Aug 2017 - Oct 2023
A binary chop
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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