Summary
Rynaard Burger is a DevSecOps engineer based in Cape Town with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping secure, production-grade systems across mobile, cloud and platform teams. His career spans senior mobile engineering roles and platform/DevOps positions at companies like Automattic and Mukuru, blending deep iOS and .NET roots with modern DevOps and security practices. He has a track record of leading mobile SDKs, large-scale B2C apps and microservices platforms, and brings pragmatic architecture decisions informed by both legacy enterprise systems and cutting-edge cloud tooling. A self-starter and mentor, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Software Engineering with practical experience running payment and platform stacks in regulated environments. Notably, he moved from specialist mobile engineering into platform and DevSecOps work, giving him a rare perspective on securing the full delivery lifecycle. Colleagues describe him as responsible, committed and consistently curious about new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Liverpool
Comp.Sci, Information Technology, Comp.Sci, Information Technology at CTI
Le-Amen Private School
English, Afrikaans