Werner Strydom
Principal I.O. Engineer at Optum
Hayward, California, United States
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Top SchoolWerner Strydom is a Principal I.O. Engineer with over 18 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and securing cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform, C#, Go, and PowerShell. He has led large migrations and platform builds—most notably directing the RelayHealth migration into Change Healthcare and automating Azure infrastructure to cut change windows from two weeks to four hours. At startups and scale-ups he’s shortened onboarding and device enrollment times dramatically by integrating Okta and JAMF, improved vulnerability reporting workflows, and reduced recurring cloud costs through pragmatic consolidation. Werner blends deep release engineering and CI/CD expertise with identity and security governance, enabling self-service developer platforms used by hundreds of engineers. He mentors teams to adopt sustainable automation and compliance practices and is comfortable advising senior leadership on risk and cloud strategy. Outside work he likens engineering to building sandcastles—observe, learn, improve, repeat—bringing a continuous improvement mindset to complex operational challenges.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Durbanville College
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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65answers
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Github Skills (117)
python10
terraform10
javascript10
webdriver10
dotnet10
browser-automation10
packer10
rust10
graph10
java10
csharp10
selenium10
terraform-provider10
aws10
geckodriver10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Phaka/hello
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:18 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
wernerstrydom/wernerstrydom.github.io
May 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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