Jans Rautenbach is a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, multi-account AWS and Kubernetes platforms for finance and energy clients. He architects resilient, automated infrastructure—having led zero-downtime MySQL upgrades across 50+ RDS instances, designed 20+ distributed K8s clusters, and centralised real-time access control for thousands of applications at Rabobank. A values-driven technologist and mentor, he excels at bridging product teams and engineers to deliver maintainable, secure solutions and has a track record of improving developer experience through internal developer platforms. A self-hosting fanatic and FLOSS enthusiast, many of his personal projects live outside GitHub, reflecting a pragmatic focus on production-ready tooling rather than social visibility. Trained in computer science and philosophy (cum laude), he brings analytical rigor and ethical awareness to complex platform decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science & Philosophy, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science & Philosophy, Cum Laude at University of Cape Town
Student Exchange, Philosophy, Student Exchange, Philosophy at University of Tübingen
High School, IT, Accounting, Advanced Maths, Business Studies, 8 - 12, High School, IT, Accounting, Advanced Maths, Business Studies, 8 - 12 at Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck
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