“Challenging problems fuel my curiosity; elegant, resilient systems are the outcome.”
I’ve spent the last decade architecting and building cloud‑native platforms across banking, fin‑tech, and marketing tech.
Currently I'm a member of the Staff Engineering forum at Capitec Bank (🇿🇦), where I design, build, and release high‑throughput systems from concept to production.
- Rust‑powered edge & HTTP proxy (→ foxy)
- Fine-grained authorisation in high-performance, mission-critical systems
- Streaming telemetry & observability with OpenTelemetry, Instana, Grafana Cloud
- Secure, policy‑driven microservices on Kubernetes
- Automating infrastructure with Terraform & GitHub Actions
| Domain | Topics that keep me up at night |
|---|---|
| Platform Engineering | Distributed tracing • Zero‑copy streaming • Service discovery |
| Networking | QUIC / HTTP‑3 • AWS VPC • Kubernetes ingress management • Gateway architecture |
| Data | Kafka • Event sourcing • Stream processing • Change‑data‑capture |
| Security | ReBAC • Policy‑as‑code • OIDC / OAuth2 • mTLS everywhere |
| Architecture | Domain-driven design • Microservices • Serverless tooling |
- Working on a minimal, Rust-powered, configuration-driven HTTP proxy (→ foxy)
- Contributing to the Spring Boot ecosystem — experimenting with HTTP/3 support.
- Prototyping policy management DSL for runtime‑tunable route security.
- Buy me a coffee
- Check out my experience on LinkedIn
- Book some time with me on TidyCal
- Or open an issue / discussion on any repo – I’m always keen to collaborate!
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