Summary
Eduan Bekker is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems for banking and fintech. He specializes in Kotlin and Java Spring Boot microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes, with hands-on leadership of backend and DevOps teams at fintech startups and EPI-USE Labs. He has led deployments on AWS EKS and driven platform reliability and automation as a Lead Backend & DevOps Engineer and now as a Senior DevOps Engineer at a fintech & security startup. His academic foundation is a BS Hons in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, complementing a practical focus on secure, production-grade systems. Known for bridging developer experience and operational excellence, he often pairs coding with infrastructure design to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. Based in Pretoria, he brings a pragmatic, fintech-focused approach to scaling microservices in regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria