About

Ruan Bekker is a highly skilled DevOps Engineer, Blockchain expert, and Cloud Evangelist with over 15 years of experience in the field. He specializes in Linux and Systems Development and Automation, and has extensive knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Big Data Technologies such as EMR, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, and Data Pipeline. Ruan's current toolset includes AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker Swarm, Prometheus, Concourse, DroneIO, OpenFaas, Dev tooling, Python, Metrics, and Ansible. He is also a Traefik Ambassador and an Open Source Ninja. Throughout his career, Ruan has worked with various operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenSuSe, CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. He has experience in Linux System Administration, Big Data, Deployment, DNS, MySQL, NoSQL, Proxy Servers, Web Servers, Security, Mail Servers, MTA’s, Networking, Monitoring, Scripting, Virtualization, and Web Frameworks. Ruan is currently working as a DevOps Engineer at bloqtech solutions (pty) ltd, where he is focused on Platform Engineering with DevOps Practices in the Blockchain space. He has previously worked as a Chief Technology Officer at beyond technology solutions and as a DevOps Engineer at mama money, where he was responsible for migrating the platform to AWS cloud, setting up cicd pipelines, observability, self-service tooling, documentation, and enabling teams to build stable and scalable systems. Ruan holds a degree in Information Technology Engineering from CTI Education Group. He is a prolific blogger, writing on his personal blog and sysadmins.co.za. His tech stack includes DevOps, AWS, Blockchain, Elastic Search, Python, Ansible, Web, Kubernetes, Docker, PHP, MySQL, SQL, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Big Data, Javascript, NoSQL, MongoDB, Flask, and Apache Hive.