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    "name": "Christian Witts",
    "label": "Director of DevOps @ Impact",
    "picture": "",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+27724369170",
    "website": "https://github.com/ChristianWitts",
    "summary": "Running a lean team of engineers focused on maintaining data centers, and multiple cloud providers, and ensuring cost effective deployments across a bevy of data stores, and environments.",
    "location": {
      "countryCode": "US",
      "address": "South Africa"
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      "company": "Impact",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Director of DevOps",
      "startDate": "2017-05-31",
      "summary": "Running a lean team of engineers focused on maintaining data centers, and multiple cloud providers, and ensuring cost effective deployments across a bevy of data stores, and environments.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-partech/"
    },
    {
      "company": "takealot.com",
      "endDate": "2017-04-30",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Engineering / DevOps",
      "startDate": "2016-03-31",
      "summary": "Building frameworks, infrastructure, and solutions to enable other development teams to be as agile, fault tolerant, and as scalable as possible.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/takealot/"
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    {
      "company": "Energy Partners",
      "endDate": "2016-02-28",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Dev Ops / Full Stack Engineer / M2M Embedded Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-05-31",
      "summary": "Building and maintaining systems from the ground up. From provisioning servers, setting up environments, building web-servers and software stacks.\nDeveloping reporting and BI solutions with Python, Tornado, MongoDB, JS/HTML5/CSS3.\nDeveloping M2M Embedded application in Go utilizing MQTT/CoAP as the transportation mechanism.\nDeveloping back-end APIs with Python and the Falcon Framework, running on Google Cloud.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/energy-partners-/"
    },
    {
      "company": "Compuscan",
      "endDate": "2012-05-31",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Business Intelligence",
      "startDate": "2006-11-30",
      "summary": "A small excerpt: Developing applications for data management and monitoring in Python mainly and some PL/SQL for various Oracle databases (Production / Development / Data Warehouse).  Handling of data loads and reporting done via automation in most cases and the occasional hand task.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/compuscan/"
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    {
      "company": "Compuscan",
      "endDate": "2006-10-31",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Helpdesk Operator",
      "startDate": "2005-04-30",
      "summary": "Helpdesk Operator for a Credit Bureau servicing both Internal and External clients not limited to network / internet support, credit bureau software support and loan administration package support.  I was a master level operator at the time I moved to the Data Operations department.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/compuscan/"
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    {
      "company": "Panamark Pty",
      "endDate": "2003-06-30",
      "highlights": [],
      "position": "Sales Consultant",
      "startDate": "2003-03-31",
      "summary": "Sold commodities as investments to overseas buyers in the USA.",
      "website": ""
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    {
      "company": "LGB",
      "endDate": "2002-01-31",
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      "position": "Barman/Manager",
      "startDate": "2000-12-31",
      "summary": "Worked as a Barman and later Duty Manager for a Bar.",
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      "institution": "University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science (BSc)",
      "startDate": "2012-12-31",
      "endDate": "2015-12-31",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika",
      "area": "Information Technology",
      "studyType": "Undergrad: Data Metrics",
      "startDate": "2009-12-31",
      "endDate": "2010-12-31",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": []
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    {
      "institution": "Computer Training Institute",
      "area": "Internet Development (Java / (X)HTML / SQL / Linux)",
      "studyType": "IDS",
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      "endDate": "2003-12-31",
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  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "The CAP Theorem of Humans",
      "publisher": "DevOpsDays Cape Town 2017",
      "releaseDate": "2017-11-06",
      "website": "https://github.com/ChristianWitts/presentations/tree/master/2017/DevOpsDaysCPT2017",
      "summary": "No distributed system is safe from failures, and neither is your organisation. Is it possible to extend the CAP theorem to people and gain a Consistent, Available, and Partition Tolerant workforce in the face of disparate levels of leadership, anachronisms, and a million priorities ?\n\nhttps://youtu.be/cAIjLH6MgCY?t=20s"
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      "keywords": ["GCP", "Kubernetes", "GitHub Actions", "Jenkins"],
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      "name": "DevOps"
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    {
      "keywords": ["Linux", "TCP/IP", "DBA", "nginx", "HAProxy"],
      "level": "Senior",
      "name": "SysOps"
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    {
      "keywords": ["Python", "Go", "Rust", "SQL"],
      "level": "Senior",
      "name": "Backend"
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    {
      "keywords": ["Requirements Analysis"],
      "level": "Senior",
      "name": "Management"
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    {
      "keywords": ["Javascript", "HTML"],
      "level": "Senior",
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      "language": "en",
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  "interests": [
    { "name": "Open Source" },
    { "name": "Scuba Diving" },
    { "name": "Freediving" },
    { "name": "Reading / Writing" }
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  "references": []
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