Gideon Schoonbee
Senior DevOps Engineer Platform Modernization
South Africa
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Top SchoolGideon Schoonbee is a Senior DevOps and Platform Modernization engineer with 11 years’ experience turning operational complexity into reliable, scalable platforms for product and security-conscious teams. He specialises in modernising legacy systems—untangling monoliths, migrating brittle deployments to resilient CI/CD pipelines, and replacing manual runbooks with automation—while keeping business continuity and stakeholder confidence intact. Comfortable working across time zones and regulated environments, Gideon blends pragmatic engineering with clear communication to deliver measurable business outcomes, not just technical wins. Currently modernising cloud infrastructure and security for Africa’s leading startup ecosystem, he also brings hands-on PHP and full‑stack experience that helps bridge application and platform concerns. He’s focused now on platform engineering, Kubernetes, and AI-augmented operations, treating long-running systems as sources of operational insight rather than liabilities.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours Degree (2017) Management and Marketing - Digital Technology Design and Innovation, BSc Honours Degree (2017) Management and Marketing - Digital Technology Design and Innovation at Technological University Dublin
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
payment7
html6
phpstorm6
doctrine-orm6
php6
intellij-plugin6
symfony6
css6
jquery6
security6
sha6
intellij6
encoder6
backup5
rsync5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mortolian/mortolian
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:39 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mortolian/rsync-remote-backup
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
This is a very simple tool which facilitates the automated backup of a linux or unix source path to a local path using rsync.
Contributions:4 releases, 18 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 4 months
unixpythonrsyncsftpssh
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