Rehan Van Der Merwe
DevOps Engineer at Resend
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRehan Van Der Merwe is a DevOps engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating AWS-first, serverless architectures that prioritize scalability, availability, durability and security. He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect – Professional and has migrated complex microservice landscapes to infrastructure-as-code using the CDK, improved observability, and optimized cost and performance across teams. Rehan has led small engineering teams, built developer golden paths, and delivered data and machine-learning-ready platforms at consultancies where pragmatic, human-centered solutions matter. An active community contributor, he organizes the AWS PTA Meetup, blogs regularly, and is a habitual problem-solver in #aws Slack channels. His background in electronic and communications engineering gives him systems-level thinking that he applies to cloud architecture and high-throughput systems. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he combines multilingual coding fluency (JS/TS, PHP, Go) with a bias for fast, well-documented delivery.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma: International Software Development Computer Programming, Diploma: International Software Development Computer Programming at WW.IT-IQDiploma: Electrical Electronics and Electronic Communication Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Diploma: Electrical Electronics and Electronic Communication Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Unisa
Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
cubing10
pkg10
tsconfig10
json10
terraform-cdk10
prebuild10
amazon10
bitbake10
refactor10
recurly10
rpm10
cloud-infrastructure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rehanvdm/serverless-website-analytics-client
May 2023 - Nov 2024
The client library that is used to ingest data into the backend of the https://github.com/rehanvdm/serverless-website-analytics CDK component
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rehanvdm/serverless-website-analytics
May 2023 - Mar 2025
A CDK construct that consists of a serverless backend, frontend and client side code to track website analytics
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 82 PRs in 1 year 9 months
analyticscdkserverless
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