Gideon Maree
Gideon Maree
Developer

GIDEON MAREE

KUBERNETES DEVOPS PLATFORM ENGINEER
CURRICULUM VITAE

 

In today's fast-paced tech landscape, companies face mounting challenges in scaling infrastructure while keeping developer teams productive and operations efficient. As a seasoned platform engineer specializing in GitOps and Kubernetes, I offer tailored internal developer platforms that transform these pain points into competitive advantages—enabling seamless application deployment, reducing downtime, and slashing operational costs by automating workflows for faster time-to-market.

With a career starting in software development in 2005 and pivoting to platform engineering and cloud infrastructure by 2016, I've delivered proven results: streamlining complex systems to boost productivity, minimize overhead, and drive measurable business growth for forward-thinking organizations.

What sets me apart? Despite being almost completely blind (with just 10% vision in both eyes), I leverage text-to-speech and magnification tools to thrive—embodying the resilience and innovation I bring to every project. I literaly do kubernetes and cloud with my eyes closed.

 
 
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SKILL
SET

 
 
 

PRIMARY
MAIN SKILLS

Kubernetes,
Git-Ops,
Infrastructure as Code
AWS, EKS,
Go

 

SECONDARY
SUPLIMENTARY

Java,
Distributed systems

 

OTHER
FAMILIAR WITH

Google Cloud,
Databases and SQL

WORK
EXPERIENCE

 

AUG ’21 -
CURRENT

MENDIX
SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER

Responsible for developing and maintaining an internal development platform based upon git-ops, to enable teams in the organisation to deploy their applications in the cloud.

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GitOps · Infrastructure as code · Platform Architecture · Go · DevOps · Kubernetes · Amazon EKS

 
 

APR ’19 -
JUL ’21

BOL.COM
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Responsible for developing and maintaining cloud messaging infrastructure for the organisation, built upon GCP PubSUb.

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Java · Kubernetes · Google Cloud Platform

 
 
 

JUN ’14 -
MAR ’19

ENTERSEKT
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Responsible for developing and designing highly available, clustered applications in the online banking and payments space.

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Docker, Docker Swarm, Java, Vert.x, RxJava, Rest, Linux, Nginx, PKI, CockroachDB

 

SEP ’12 -
MAY ’14

NETELEK
SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Researching and seeking out new technologies and platforms for the text generation of business applications.
Developing rich responsive Java based business applications for the utilities industry.

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Java, Java EE, Rest, MSSQL, Linux

 

DEC ’10 -
SEP ’12

SIXTHIRTY
SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

In 2010, me and a couple of friends, gave it a shot to start out our own company. We developed rich web based Java business applications for various industries.

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Java, Java EE, SOAP, Rest, MySQL, Linux

 
 
 
 
 
 

OCT ’09 -
DEC ’10

MEMORPHIC
SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Developing and maintaining large rich internet applications with java backend.

Designing and maintaining database infrastructure for high availability.

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Java, Java EE, Rest, Postgresql, Linux

 

MAR ’06 -
OCT ’09

PREZENCE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Developing online marketing customer relations and customer profiling tools for large companies in the entertainment and advertising sectors.

Seeking out and developing new software and technologies to gain a competitive edge in the information technology industry.

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PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, Java, Linux

 

JAN ’05 -
FEB ’06

SILICON OVERDRIVE
JR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Software development. Database design. Web application development.

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PHP, MySQL, Linux

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EDUCATION

 

National Diploma in Information Technology
From the Cape Peninsula University of Technology

— COMPLETED ’04