Ian Engelbrecht
System Engineering Manager at Veeam Software
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolIan Engelbrecht is a System Engineering Manager with nine years of hands-on IT and cloud experience, currently leading systems engineering for Veeam across Africa from Gauteng, South Africa. He combines deep operational knowledge—backup/DR, compliance, ransomware protection and hybrid cloud architectures—with proven delivery of large projects on time and budget, often in M&A and high-growth environments. Ian has designed secure cloud and multi-tenant SaaS solutions, led “physical-to-virtual” and virtual-to-virtual backup strategies with clear RPO/RTO outcomes, and coaches teams to adopt best practices. Beyond enterprise systems, he moonlights as an arachnologist-driven programmer contributing to data management for natural history collections, reflecting an unusual blend of technical rigor and scientific curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cambridge, Igcse & higcse, Cambridge, Igcse & higcse at Ridgeway collegeGrade10, IEB, Grade10, IEB at Hydepark high school
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
couchdb10
pouchdb10
wikidata10
json10
oracle-db10
nodejs10
crdt10
converting10
nosql-database10
firebase10
foundationdb10
nosql10
ionic10
webapp10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ianengelbrecht/VMDataFetcher
Mar 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
NSCF/batjs
Apr 2020 - May 2024
A Node command line utility for extracting and batching image files for specimens
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
specimensimagebatchingcommand-line-utilitynode-command-line
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