Summary
Liz Bode is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across venture-backed and consultancy environments in South Africa. She combines strong software engineering roots in Golang, Spring Boot and Python with production-grade SRE tooling—Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and a full observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki/Thanos). At Heetch she focuses on reliability at scale after honing SRE practices at CloudSmiths and pragmatic backend development roles earlier in her career. Liz pairs API design and multi-cloud experience (GCP, Azure) with a pragmatic engineering mindset from a Software Engineering degree at the University of Pretoria. Colleagues describe her as someone who bridges developer ergonomics and operational excellence, often surfacing subtle monitoring improvements that prevent incidents before they start.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Mary's Diocesan School for Girls
High School, High School at The Wykeham Collegiate
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at University of Pretoria
English, French