Devops
Head Of Dev Ops & Infrastructure
Infrastructure leader running a multi-chain oracle protocol that secures approximately $10B of DeFi value and $6B of real-world-asset value on-chain — at ~2B RPC requests/month and ~1TB/day of telemetry. As Head of DevOps & Infrastructure at Chronicle Labs, I designed and operate the entire cloud-native platform end-to-end and am leading the org's path to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2. Author of the original terraform-aws-eks community module (adopted by AWS workshop documentation).
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $190,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Residency: 🇿🇦 South Africa
Experience
Principal Cloud Architect
Grove (formerly Pokt Network) 2022 - 2023
Migrated and rebuilt POKT's Portal service onto a scalable, multi-region, cloud-native Kubernetes platform handling >1 billion relays every 24 hours. Introduced progressive-delivery practices end-to-end and codified the full platform as infrastructure-as-code.
Cloud Infrastructure Lead
Simple Coin 2020 - 2022
Built Simple Coin's entire cloud platform and CI/CD tooling on Google Cloud (GKE), aligned to well-architected principles. Operated full Bitcoin nodes on Kubernetes with HPA-driven autoscaling; standardised Terraform as the single source of truth for all infrastructure.
Cloud Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
BTC Inc 2019 - 2020
Owned DevOps, InfoSec, and network operations for BTC Inc's publishing platform — running bitcoinmagazine.com and distributed.com. Designed and deployed multi-AZ, highly available WordPress Multisite environments on AWS, fully codified with Packer, Ansible, and Terraform — delivering zero-downtime deployments, automated fail-over and rollback, and semantically versioned infrastructure via custom Terraform modules.
Cloud Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
Po.et 2018 - 2019
Designed and operated the Po.et protocol's production platform on AWS — multi-AZ Kubernetes (KOPS, EKS) with a Helm-operator-driven CD pipeline shipping multiple zero-downtime releases per day and automated rollbacks. Built a Kubernetes ChatOps bot for cluster introspection and ops tasks via Slack, and stood up a full EFK stack for log aggregation and analysis.
DevOps Engineer
Amazon Web Services 2017 - 2018
Supported AWS customers across the deployment-management portfolio — ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, CodeBuild/Deploy/Pipeline/Commit — alongside core services (EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, ASG, IAM, KMS, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway). Helped customers architect and optimise production workloads; delivered internal Kubernetes training around EKS GA and built internal support tooling for the EKS service.
Skills
architecture
aws
cloud-engineer
cryptography
ethereum
gcp
golang
grafana
infrastructure
kubernetes
mongo
postgres
tech-lead
devops
english