Donovan Carthew
Operability Engineer at Equal Experts South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Carthew is an Operability Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and automating reliable Linux and cloud infrastructure, currently based in the Western Cape. He has a strong AWS pedigree from multiple roles at AWS—including EC2 and Threat Research—plus consulting operability experience at Equal Experts, blending deep systems knowledge with practical deployment and CI/CD tooling like Ansible and SSM. Donovan is driven to “automate all the things,” translating requirements and enterprise architecture into repeatable, auditable runbooks and infrastructure-as-code. Known on GitHub as a “YAML Engineer, Disambiguist and Thing Doer,” he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex operational problems and threat-informed system design.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Parel Vallei High School
Github Skills (18)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
backup10
disaster-recovery10
aws10
velero9
persistent-volumes9
aws-codecommit8
kubernetes8
cli5
access-log3
terraform-module3
iam-policy2
bucket2
s3-bucket2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carthewd/c3
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
AWS CodeCommit CLI
Contributions:1 review, 43 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
aws-codecommitcli
carthewd/iamdiff
Jan 2020 - May 2026
Use IAM Access Advisor to get diffs on AWS IAM permissions - granted vs used
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 5 months
aws
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