Jean Du Plessis
Engineering Manager at Kilo Code
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJean Du Plessis is an engineering manager based in Cape Town with 20+ years in software and over a decade in leadership roles, currently building teams and developer tooling at Kilo Code. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organizations—from growing web teams at Sourcegraph to directing Enablement and cross-team initiatives—and led product-focused engineering at GitLab and Upbound. Jean combines hands-on backend and DevOps experience (notably contributions to the Crossplane cloud-native control plane) with a track record of mentoring engineers and improving developer experience. He excels at aligning org strategy with product priorities, hiring and coaching managers, and shipping reliable developer-facing systems. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-grade process to open-source ecosystems and commercial SaaS.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Software and Web Development, Diploma, Software and Web Development at Smartsource
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Github Skills (12)
control-systems10
infrastructure-as-code10
controls10
kubernetes10
go10
cloud-native10
controller10
kubernetes-pods10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
testing9
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 4 commits, 17 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jean primarily contributed to the Crossplane project by addressing several areas including updating dependencies, clarifying deprecation messages and improving the functionality of e2e tests. Their work involved modifying Go code related to API extensions, protobuf definitions, and e2e test configurations, indicating experience with back-end development and testing processes within the Crossplane framework. They also updated the e2e-framework dependency.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
upbound/provider-vault
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A Crossplane provider for HashiCorp Vault
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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