Matthew Van Der Bijl
Senior Platform Engineer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolMatthew Van Der Bijl is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Cape Town with 11 years building cloud-native and reliability-focused infrastructure across consulting and enterprise environments. He progressed from software engineering and tutoring into site reliability, cloud architecture consulting, and platform leadership at Dye & Durham, pairing hands-on automation with pragmatic operational risk management. Comfortable preferring machines to meetings, he excels at translating business needs into resilient, observable platforms and has experience across DevOps, SRE, and cloud architecture roles. His background—BCom (Hons) in Information Systems and a BSc in IT—gives him both technical breadth and systems-thinking for cross-functional delivery. Notably, he thrives in environments where careful tooling and stealthy efficiency replace noise, quietly improving uptime and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom (Hons), Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom (Hons), Information Systems at University of Cape TownBachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at CTI Education GroupWynberg Boys' High School
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
openxr10
pdf-viewer10
api10
firefox10
freetype10
nodejs10
angular-library10
firebase10
chromium10
angularfire10
node-module10
react-markdown10
pdfjs10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Blunderchips/monogram2
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:93 PRs, 87 pushes, 89 branches in 5 months
Blunderchips/LWJGL-OBJ-Loader
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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