Marnus Botes
Senior DevOps Engineer at LexisNexis
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMarnus Botes is a Senior DevOps Engineer with seven years’ experience building cloud-native infrastructure and production tooling across South African tech firms. He progressed from intern to senior engineer through hands-on roles at BBD, Synthesis Software Technologies, and now LexisNexis, blending software engineering experience with cloud operations. Passionate about cloud computing, he’s actively steering his career toward security and networking specialization while delivering reliable, automated platforms. Educated in computing and software engineering at WeThinkCode and the University of South Africa, Marnus pairs formal study with practical delivery and rapid on-the-job learning. Quietly ambitious, he brings a practitioner’s mindset—preferring infrastructure-as-code and repeatable processes that scale—alongside a track record of stepping into greater responsibility.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at WeThinkCodeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Pretoria University of South AfricaHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Midstream College
Github Skills (17)
infrastructure7
python7
iot6
scale6
zeromq6
infrastructure-management6
remote-execution5
configuration-management5
docker5
devops4
package-repository4
automation4
saltstack4
salt4
infrastructure-as-code3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjbotes/Matcha
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
mjbotes/MERN_Stack_Front_To_Back_Course
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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