Kyle Robbertze
DevOps Architect at ClearlyEnergy
New Forest, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Robbertze is a DevOps Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across education, enterprise and broadcast sectors. A Debian Developer and longtime open-source advocate, he contributes back-end improvements to LibreTime, adding timezone handling and integrations that directly support radio broadcast automation. He has progressed from system administration and Debian packaging to SRE and Azure-focused DevOps roles, most recently leading platform architecture at ClearlyEnergy after shaping reliability at Flanksource and Ada Health. Kyle blends practical Kubernetes/Docker operations with a developer’s understanding of backend systems, having run a broadcast-focused solutions integrator (Bitcast) that delivered production services on open-source stacks. Based in the New Forest, England, he pairs formal Computer Science training from the University of Cape Town with real-world experience in live-broadcast engineering and orchestration. As someone who has moved seamlessly between on-air technical engineering and cloud architecture, he brings rare operational empathy to platform design and incident response.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science at University of Cape TownSweet Valley Primary SchoolWynberg Boys' High School
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
zone10
php10
timezone10
back-end-development10
javascript7
phpunit4
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
libretime/libretime
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:359 reviews, 398 commits, 977 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kyle's contributions focused on enhancing the LibreTime platform by implementing timezone-related features and integrating external services. The primary task was to integrate user-defined timezones in the application's core logic, impacting how dates and times are handled. Additionally, the user merged in changes related to OpenCollective, which suggests contributions to integrating or supporting community-driven funding mechanisms. This user demonstrates an understanding of back-end development within the context of a radio broadcast and automation platform.
icecastradio-stationbroadcastaudiostudio
bitcastza/mumbleice
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 31 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years
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