Summary
Warren Hodgkinson is a seasoned cloud-focused Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly reliable systems across companies like CrowdStrike, VMware, Arista Networks and Walmart Global Tech. He thrives on technical challenges and pragmatic engineering—favoring elegant, no-nonsense solutions over buzzwords—and has deep hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, observability stacks and infrastructure tooling. Warren has repeatedly led reliability and DevOps efforts that kept production services live at extreme scale (including DNS routing at 900k qps and global in-store caching across 1000+ clusters). His background spans embedded systems and industrial protocols up to cloud orchestration, giving him a rare full-spectrum perspective on system design and failure modes. Colleagues rely on him for on-call resilience, operational playbooks and clear architectural guidance that prioritize uptime and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) IT, Master of Science (MSc) IT at RAU
Crawford College Killarney
English, Afrikaans