Sakhile Masoka
Lead Platform Engineer
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolSakhile Masoka is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Durban with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud and HPC platforms for enterprise and research environments. He has progressed from HPC systems administration and R&D at CSIR to data science at SKA South Africa, AWS deployment support, and leadership of platform engineering at Old Mutual, consistently focusing on capacity optimization, autoscaling and cost control. Sakhile blends deep technical skills in Linux, Python and cloud-native operations with practical experience tuning services to prevent bill shock and ensure infrastructure headroom. He holds an Honours in Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BSc from UKZN, reflecting strong academic foundations underpinning his engineering practice. Notably, his background bridges scientific computing and commercial cloud platforms, giving him a rare perspective on scaling compute-heavy workloads into production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Computer Science, A, Honours, Computer Science, A at University of the WitwatersrandBSc Computer Science, Information Technology, BSc Computer Science, Information Technology at University of KwaZulu-Natal
Github Skills (62)
measurements9
planets9
software-defined-radio8
sun8
radio-astronomy8
astrodynamics8
hpc-applications8
data-storage8
brain-computer-interface8
mass-spectrometry8
orbital-mechanics8
reduction8
meteorology8
signal-processing8
infrared8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smasoka/ChpcSlurm
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes in 5 months
smasoka/Learning-Things
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Place where I dumb my learning materials
Contributions:3 PRs, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
learning-materialsplacedumb
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