Ryan Vanniekerk
Site Reliability Engineer at Rivian
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRyan Vanniekerk is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on DevOps experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation for companies from startups to Rivian and Lonely Planet. He specialises in Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability (Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Vector) and automated provisioning with Ansible, and has led the design and rollout of first-of-kind cloud stacks and logging/metrics pipelines across hundreds of microservices. Obsessed with performance and easing organizational pain points, he pairs Unix-era operational rigor with modern SRE practices to drive reliability at scale. An early cloud builder at Rivian and presenter on Kubernetes tooling, he brings both production troubleshooting acumen and a knack for standardizing telemetry and deployment patterns across diverse stacks.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (141)
htc-vive10
dashboard10
reverse-proxy10
grafana10
prometheus-exporter10
elasticsearch10
kong10
serverless10
influxdb10
monitoring10
api10
data-visualization10
graphing10
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thenayr/kubernetes-vr-api
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
The backend API for Kubernetes VR project
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years
apibackendkubernetesbackend-api
thenayr/iamnayr.com
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 7 months
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