Pieter Jordaan
Senior Software Engineer at Sanlam Fintech
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter Jordaan is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building distributed systems and infrastructure automation, currently applying his skills at Sanlam Fintech from Cape Town. He brings deep systems-level expertise in Go, Python, Java and Linux from roles at AWS and Careem where he designed multi-region architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and lifecycle automation for large fleets. Pieter pairs academic rigor—a MSc in Computer Science from Stellenbosch University—with hands-on work across telecoms, fintech and large-scale cloud services, and has recent experience in hardware-software integration for telescope infrastructure at SKAO. Known for turning monoliths into resilient microservices and codifying infrastructure with Terraform, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong operational sense. Notably, his career spans both mission-critical cloud operations and on-the-ground AIV consulting, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on deploying dependable systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (43)
boto10
aws10
golang10
testing9
programming-language9
go9
infrastructure9
logging8
logger8
structured-logging8
interpreter8
allocation8
json8
protocol-buffers7
terraform7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
godfried/impendulo
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:318 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
godfried/samba-backup
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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