Zandre Witte
Senior Software Engineer Contract at Self-Employed (sole trader)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolZandre Witte is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with a decade of professional experience and a 13-year history building distributed systems across South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand. He combines hands-on backend engineering (Go, Scala, Java, Ruby) with infrastructure and DevOps expertise—redesigning IaC with Terraform, migrating EC2 to Kubernetes, and cutting AWS costs by up to 60% while improving reliability and CI/CD. Zandre has led integration and agent teams, shipped IoT and telemetry platforms using time-series databases and messaging (VictoriaMetrics, NATS), and built reporting tools in Go to surface customer insights. Comfortable toggling between coding and people leadership, he mentors engineers, runs hiring and performance processes, and embeds QA and automation into delivery pipelines. An early-stage startup veteran, he thrives where pragmatic engineering and architectural vision must meet tight operational and cost constraints.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBTEC Higher National Diploma in Information Technology, Information System Software Development, BTEC Higher National Diploma in Information Technology, Information System Software Development at CTI Education GroupNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Tygerberg Highschool
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Github Skills (34)
topology9
profiling9
agent9
logging9
datadog9
otel8
pmm8
apm-agent8
gitlab8
distributed-tracing8
monitoring8
stackdriver8
kubernetes7
observability7
golang7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
StackVista/agent-payload
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Payload format description for communication between the agent and the StackState backend
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
agentstackstatepayloadcommunicationbackend
StackVista/agent-transport-protocol
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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