Johann Venter
DevOps Practise Lead at xneelo (Pty) Ltd
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJohann Venter is a DevOps Practice Lead with 9 years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems using Scala, Akka-HTTP, Kafka, RabbitMQ and assorted functional libraries like Cats and Monix. Based in the Western Cape, he progressed from systems administration and community PC repairs to software engineering and now leads DevOps practices at xneelo, blending deep coding discipline with operational pragmatism. He favors clean, strict code and brings pragmatic experience with databases (MongoDB, TimescaleDB) and messaging ecosystems, enabling reliable streaming and event-driven architectures. Notably, his background spans both infrastructure and application layers, allowing him to bridge gaps between SRE, platform teams and backend engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS (Mathematics), Mathematics and Computer Science, Incomplete, Bachelor of Science - BS (Mathematics), Mathematics and Computer Science, Incomplete at Stellenbosch UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at National Senior Certificate, 2010) (High School Stellenbosch)High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior Certificate (2010), High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior Certificate (2010) at High School StellenboschUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (3)
kong4
api4
admin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
niekz/advent_of_code_2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
niekz/AtomicScala
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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