Pieter Smit
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at The Warehouse Group
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter Smit is a seasoned infrastructure and cloud engineer with 15 years’ experience designing resilient networks and production-grade Linux/Kubernetes platforms across e-commerce, fintech, and utilities. He has led infrastructure teams at The Warehouse Group and 9 Spokes, driving large migrations to containers, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible) while delivering PCI-compliant, 24x7 e‑commerce operations. A pragmatic troubleshooter with deep networking roots, Pieter has built and operated dual-DC architectures, dynamic BGP failover, and automated deployments for hundreds of servers and devices. He is an active open-source contributor to SaltStack, focusing on backend, testing and build improvements, and combines systems-level thinking with hands-on Rust, Linux and k8s expertise. Based in Auckland, he brings a blend of startup agility and enterprise rigor, often surfacing subtle network-level causes behind application faults.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. Electronic Engineering, B.Eng. Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversityDiploma in Engineering Management, Diploma in Engineering Management at University of Pretoria 
English
Github Skills (14)
infrastructure-as-code10
configuration-management10
saltstack10
devops10
cloud-manager10
python10
testing9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
restful-api7
api-design7
yaml7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily contributed to the core functionality and maintenance of the SaltStack project. They focused on bug fixes and enhancements, impacting multiple modules and states within the project. This included updating and correcting code across various areas like modules such as `boto_kinesis.py` and `nexus.py`, as well as states like `mongodb_user.py`. The user also made changes to the testing infrastructure and the build process.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
diepes/ntc-templates
Oct 2020 - Jun 2023
TextFSM templates for parsing show commands of network devices
Contributions:104 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 9 months
netmikonetwork-devicesnetwork-automationtextfsmparsing
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