Summary
Mario Engelbrecht is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient, secure, and scalable cloud-native platforms across enterprises like BMW Group, AWS, and takealot.com. He brings deep systems expertise from roles spanning Linux device drivers, NFV deployments, and container-focused customer engineering at AWS, allowing him to bridge low-level performance work with high-level cloud architecture. Comfortable in both field-facing and backend roles, he has led POCs, supported production e-commerce services, and built automation to eliminate manual toil. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he holds a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer Engineering and enjoys taking systems apart to understand and improve them. Notably, his background in networking, DPDK/Open vSwitch, and telecom automation gives him a rare blend of packet-level performance insight and cloud operations craft.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, 76, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, 76 at North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit
English, Afrikaans