Pedre Viljoen
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolPedre Viljoen is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable cloud-native and mobile systems, currently working at AWS after senior engineering roles at Nile.ag and LifeQ. Trained as a mechatronics engineer at Stellenbosch University, he blends hardware-aware systems thinking with hands-on software delivery across React/React Native, .NET Core, NodeJS serverless, and Kubernetes-based microservices. He has a strong background in fast-paced product environments, leading teams to ship robust apps and resilient backend services while driving CI/CD and cloud deployments. Comfortable both in startups and large platforms, Pedre has repeatedly moved between implementation and architectural responsibilities, most recently stepping into staff-level engineering before joining AWS. Outside of work he values outdoors and community—an outlook that informs his collaborative leadership and continuous curiosity. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, curious, and focused on connecting technical solutions to real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical and Mechatronical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical and Mechatronical Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversityNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Pretoria Boys High School
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Github Skills (113)
drawer10
menu10
mongoose10
react-native-component10
react10
gatsby9
api9
caching9
graphql9
fastest9
nodejs9
compiler8
rest8
javascript8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pedreviljoen/animation-testing
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Sandbox for testing some react native animations
Contributions:23 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
reactnative-animationsreact-nativetestingsandbox
awslabs/aws-cicd-workshop-cpt
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:62 commits in 4 months
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