Summary
Ryan Vanniekerk is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on DevOps experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation for companies from startups to Rivian and Lonely Planet. He specialises in Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, observability (Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Vector) and automated provisioning with Ansible, and has led the design and rollout of first-of-kind cloud stacks and logging/metrics pipelines across hundreds of microservices. Obsessed with performance and easing organizational pain points, he pairs Unix-era operational rigor with modern SRE practices to drive reliability at scale. An early cloud builder at Rivian and presenter on Kubernetes tooling, he brings both production troubleshooting acumen and a knack for standardizing telemetry and deployment patterns across diverse stacks.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer