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)
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
muon10
dmg10
snap10
pkg10
rpm10
aws-cdk10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
electron-builder10
json-schema-validator10
aws-cli10
stripe10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rehanvdm/cdk-express-pipeline
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
CDK Express Pipelines is a library built on the AWS CDK, allowing you to define pipelines in a CDK-native method. It leverages the CDK CLI to compute and deploy the correct dependency graph between Waves, Stages, and Stacks using the .addDependency method, making it build-system agnostic and an alternative to AWS CDK Pipelines.
Contributions:21 PRs, 273 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 11 months
aws-cdkbuild-systemclidependency-graphcdk
rehanvdm/tailscale-lambda-extension
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
A CDK construct that creates an AWS Lambda Layer containing Tailscale binaries, enabling Lambda functions to connect to your Tailscale network.
Contributions:2 PRs, 257 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
aws-lambda-layerlambdalambda-functionstailscalecdk
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