Rhyno Van Der Sluijs
Principal Engineer at Betashares
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRhyno Van Der Sluijs is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade-plus career designing and delivering cloud-native systems across finance, media, and ed-tech. He combines hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Golang, AWS and service mesh technologies (gRPC, Istio) with squad-level leadership, driving microservice architecture and platform reliability. Rhyno has led platform and cloud engineering teams at Blackmagic Design, Catch and Digitary, and now shapes strategic engineering direction at Betashares. Known for translating operational needs into pragmatic infrastructure—CI/CD, Terraform, and DevOps practices—he balances architecture with delivery velocity. Unexpectedly, his background spans both deep application development and performance/security consulting, giving him a rare blend of developer empathy and systems rigor.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours 3 Majors: Computer Science Network engineering Software Development, Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours 3 Majors: Computer Science Network engineering Software Development at Deakin University
Afrikaans
Github Skills (10)
udp8
tcp8
client-server8
terraform6
terraform-provider5
grafana5
kubernetes4
charts4
helm4
serverless3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RhynoVDS/ObjectTransport
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Send and Receive objects over TCP or UDP
Contributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 1 month
client-serverreceivetcpudp
RhynoVDS/ProRata.NET
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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