Philip Wood
DevOps Engineer at Melio AI
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Wood is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient cloud-native platforms and integration solutions across South Africa's financial and utility sectors. He has led DevOps and architecture initiatives at companies including Melio AI, BVNK (supporting Grindrod Bank’s Bigbaobab core banking rebuild), and the South African Reserve Bank, combining hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD toolchain work with pragmatic platform design. Philip’s background in integration and message architecture gives him a rare ability to translate complex legacy systems into modern microservice ecosystems while keeping operational reliability front of mind. He’s equally comfortable advising on application architecture as he is automating deployments and performance testing, and his career shows a consistent thread of driving industrialisation and centres of excellence. Based in Gauteng, he pairs strong communication and design sensibilities with a deep theoretical grounding that informs practical, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Diploma, Oracle, Java, Computer Science Diploma, Oracle, Java at CTIMatric, Matric at Hoërskool Andrew Rabie
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (93)
synthetic10
prometheus-exporter10
operator10
monitoring10
continuous-testing10
kubernetes-operator10
cuelang10
testing9
dockerfile9
k8s9
authorisation9
kubeadm9
aws9
kubernetes9
oracle-database9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philipstaffordwood/canary-checker
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:19 PRs, 73 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
philipstaffordwood/karina
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:15 PRs, 314 pushes, 20 branches in 2 months
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