Jeremi-ernst Avenant
Cloud Infrastructure Specialist at Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJeremi-ernst Avenant is a Cloud Infrastructure Specialist and serial founder with 11 years’ experience architecting and operating large-scale virtualized and cloud environments across academia and enterprise. He currently oversees an award-winning High Throughput Cluster at IDIA, enabling 400+ researchers with OpenStack, Ceph, K8s and automation tooling, while also running automation-focused IT services through his company, Boston Technologies. His background spans virtualization, DaaS, managed services and modern workplace solutions, grounded in practical skills with Ansible, Terraform, KVM, Ceph and Mellanox/Cisco networking. Trained in cybersecurity and business management, he blends technical depth with governance-minded operational management and strong interpersonal communication. Notably, he pairs hands-on infrastructure engineering with a history of founding training academies and esports ventures, showing a creative, user-focused approach to technology and community building.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PGDip.CyberSecurity, Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Evidence Finding, Governance, PGDip.CyberSecurity, Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Evidence Finding, Governance at University of Cape TownDip. Software Engineer, MS SQL Development, Dip. Software Engineer, MS SQL Development at CTI Education GroupB.A., Information Science / Psychology, B.A., Information Science / Psychology at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit StellenboschUniversity of South AfricaOld Boys' Paul Roos Gymnasium
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (168)
python10
photo10
ansible10
vagrant10
ceph10
nodejs10
filesystem10
devops10
javascript9
photo-gallery9
high-performance9
fuse9
backup9
nestjs9
fat9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jeevadotnet/ceph-ansible
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Ansible playbooks to deploy Ceph, the distributed filesystem.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
vagrantdevopsansiblecephfilesystem
jeevadotnet/ceph
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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