Stefan Coetzee
Managed Hosting Platform Engineer
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Coetzee is a Managed Hosting Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on DevOps and platform engineering experience, specialising in Linux, Kubernetes, and hosting resilient microservices. He has built production-ready, “batteries included” Kubernetes clusters, CI pipelines, and managed service operators that remove operational toil for developers while adding metrics, secrets encryption, and failover. Stefan has led migrations to cloud managed services (AWS RDS, AmazonMQ) and automated infrastructure at scale with Ansible, CloudFormation and modern monitoring stacks like Datadog and ELK. His background spans low-level systems work in C/C++ and Python on both Linux and Windows, paired with formal Red Hat and Apple certifications. At xneelo he rejoined to implement his recommendations, driving a data-first approach by adding website performance metrics, logs aggregation and plans for trend-based abuse detection. Based in the Western Cape, he blends deep systems instincts with pragmatic platform design that prioritises measurable outcomes over gut decisions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, B.Sc. IT, Bachelor’s Degree, B.Sc. IT at University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (9)
aws8
terraform-provider7
terraform7
kubernetes-secrets6
vault6
hashicorp-vault5
terraform-module5
hashicorp4
kubernetes4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AfricanResearchCloud/gatekeeper
Mar 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
chrysalis69/kafka-simulator
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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