Jude Aakjaer
DevOps Engineer at dull.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJude Aakjaer is a DevOps and SRE leader based in Melbourne with 13 years of hands-on experience and over 20 years on the tools, known for improving developer experience by designing simple, secure, and automatable solutions for both greenfield and legacy systems. He has driven platform and product initiatives at Zendesk—founding teams, shipping datastore automation and credential delivery tooling that became company-wide incident remediation and console exploration utilities—and served as Lead SRE at ANZ before his current DevOps role. Jude blends technical leadership with customer empathy, routinely conducting interviews and cross-team collaboration to align solutions with security, compliance, and business needs. He contributes to open-source projects like the wp-discourse plugin, focusing on maintainability and cleanups that extend project longevity. Pragmatic and people-oriented, he thrives on translating complex operational problems into predictable, self-service developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Armadale Senior High SchoolDiploma, Interactive Multimedia, Diploma, Interactive Multimedia at eCentral Tafe
English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
2kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (13)
plugin-development10
php10
refactoring10
refactor10
kubernetes6
curl6
javascript4
user-authentication3
co3
discourse3
authentication3
conversations3
single-sign-on3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/wp-discourse
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
WordPress plugin that lets you use Discourse as the community engine for a WordPress blog
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jude primarily contributed to the WordPress plugin's core functionality by removing unused variables and refactoring code within the comments and sync files. Their work focused on code cleanup and optimization, including fixing indentation, space inconsistencies, and removing superfluous closing tags. The user's changes improved code readability and maintainability, essential for the plugin's long-term development.
discoursewordpress-blogsingle-sign-onwordpressauthentication
gnunicorn/discourse-plugin-profile-notes
Dec 2015 - Jul 2022
add and share notes on profile pages of discourse instances
Contributions:3 PRs in 6 years 8 months
instancesdiscoursenotesshare
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