Willem Potgieter
Director Of Engineering at Bash
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolWillem Potgieter is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating retail and classifieds platforms across South Africa. He progressed from PHP developer roles into SRE and engineering leadership at Superbalist before taking on his current director role at Bash, blending software development, DevOps, and reliability practices. Willem has deep practical experience with Solr, Drupal, and large-scale web systems, and he’s comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and team coaching. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science with a track record of shipping features, fixing production issues, and improving site reliability under real-world retail traffic. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who evolves teams as well as systems, often bringing insights from his early full-stack and search-platform work to inform operational decisions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (66)
monitoring9
django9
sdk9
pagerduty9
sentry9
visualizations9
benchmarking9
api8
elasticsearch8
composer8
python8
load-testing8
performance-testing8
dashboard8
cloudflare-api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MaggotMouth/sentry-exporter
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
A Prometheus exporter for Sentry, written in go
Contributions:7 releases, 4 reviews, 21 commits in 6 months
goprometheus-exportersentrymetricsprometheus
Superbalist/cookiecutter-kubernetes-base
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 7 months
kubernetescookiecutterrecipe
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