Kieran Bristow
Platform Engineer
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKieran Bristow is a Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernising developer platforms and resilient production systems in financial services. At Absa he has led platform tech and solution architecture for large-scale internal developer platforms that manage tens of thousands of deployments across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters, combining Crossplane, ArgoCD, Tekton, Backstage and EKS with custom controllers. His background in physics (MSc) and early research at CERN underpins a data-driven, systems-first approach to complex distributed problems and automation. Prior roles at Standard Bank span low-level pricing libraries, CI/CD and cross-language tooling for quant teams, showing deep full-stack and operational experience from C++ and Java to Go, Python and Typescript. He pairs hands-on engineering with product-focused leadership—often replacing brittle legacy processes with reproducible, self-service automation.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics at University of the Witwatersrand
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (48)
operator10
kubernetes10
aws-secrets-manager10
secret-management10
storage10
secrets10
secrets-manager10
external-secrets10
aws10
kubernetes-secrets10
external-secrets-operator10
docker9
cloud-native9
ceph9
tekton8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
absa-subatomic/gluon
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:115 PRs, 130 pushes, 112 branches in 1 year 10 months
absa-subatomic/quantum-mechanic
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:393 PRs, 518 pushes, 430 branches in 2 years 2 months
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