J Venter
DevOps Technical Team Lead at Nationale-Nederlanden
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJ Venter is a DevOps technical team lead with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and running resilient Linux-first infrastructure and delivery pipelines across fintech, e-commerce, and cloud providers. He combines deep OS and platform engineering roots—authoring custom GNU/Linux distributions and managing multi-UNIX environments—with modern DevOps practices and Agile leadership at Nationale-Nederlanden. Comfortable coding in Python and automating at scale, he has repeatedly moved from platform engineering to senior DevOps roles, driving reliability, zero-downtime deployments, and build/package workflows. Based in North Brabant, he pairs a lifelong programmer’s curiosity about “brainy things and space” with practical operational instincts honed at Oracle, Allan Gray, and large online retailers. Colleagues value him for bridging low-level system design and team-focused delivery, plus an uncommon background in English literature that sharpens his communication and translation of technical complexity.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
of a BA, English Literature with additional; Computer Science and Philosophy, of a BA, English Literature with additional; Computer Science and Philosophy at University of Pretoria
English
Github Skills (39)
yad10
python-client10
wrapper10
steam-api9
steambot9
pure-python9
ckan9
wine9
steam9
tinker9
proton8
installer8
stl8
linux8
bash7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ajventer/mirthless
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:157 commits, 1 PR, 140 pushes in 1 month
badgamerpgsingle-playerplayer
ajventer/pyKAN
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Pure python client for KSP CKAN.
Contributions:11 releases, 76 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years
pythonpython-clientpure-pythonckanksp
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.