Duncan Phillips
Co-Founder at Workspark Technologies
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDuncan Phillips is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems and engineering organizations from startup to enterprise. As Co-Founder of Workspark Technologies he combines deep operational and product experience—spanning job architecture, performance management, OKRs and recruitment—with hands-on SaaS and systems engineering to productize management best practices. His career includes CTO and Director roles where he modernized infrastructure (early Kubernetes adoption), rebuilt teams and observability, and scaled platforms through rapid growth and peak load events. He co-founded ScaleConf to bring global scalability expertise to South Africa, reflecting a passion for community knowledge-sharing as well as engineering. Notably, his background ranges from automating large-scale recovery systems at Facebook and AWS to shaping data and AI-driven products at Aerobotics, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and product-minded leadership.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
CAPM Certification, Project Management, CAPM Certification, Project Management at PMIHonours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at Rhodes University
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Github Skills (92)
minikube9
high-performance8
pipeline8
monitoring8
k8s8
jenkins-plugin8
dashboard8
jenkins-api-plugin8
jenkins8
jenkins-pipeline8
kafka-producer8
librdkafka8
apache-kafka8
go8
producer8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scaleconf/scaleconf.github.com
Nov 2011 - May 2022
Scaleconf website
Contributions:308 commits, 40 PRs, 63 pushes in 10 years 8 months
duncanphillips/wedding-site
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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