Andries Coetzee Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Cape Town

Build and maintain Backend Systems, Tools & Integration for AAA Multiplayer Title as a Senior Backend Engineer.• Work planning, execution & operation with Atlassian & Microsoft Suites(Jira, Confluence, Teams, Office)• Build and maintain Backend APIs, Tools & Integrations with C#, Orleans, PostgreSQL, PlayFab, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Helm, Bicep, C++, Unreal Engine• Build & maintain continuous delivery pipelines for multi domain and environments using Azure DevOps, Perforce, Unreal Game Sync, Team City, Grafana, MS Teams• Provide FireFighting support to solve day-to-day problems, fix bugs & pipelines, and unblock people with Grafana Cloud, Confluence, TeamCity, Teams, Azure Data Explorer with Kusto

London, England, United Kingdom

Principal Engineer for the M² Platform focusing on Operations and Strategy, working across the entire business unit implementing, coordinating and unblocking big projects.• Plan, coordinate and implement Native Clients for the M² Platform across many different tech stacks, divisions and domain areas• Design and Implement product delivery model to standardise engineering operations for improved communication, simplification, transparency and metrics • Design and Implement customer support strategy and structure to enable SaaS support model, support transparency and metrics• Designed and Implemented Maturity Model for improved Content and Platform Standards & Output Quality• Stakeholder for AI developments in Knowledge Bases, Operation Improvements and Dynamic Content.• Improve intake and development processes for improved cadence and output alignment.• Build product strategy & vision, set goals & service levels, review technical aspects of deliverables andgoals for the M² Platform using Jira, Confluence, C4 models, Agile methodologies

London, England, United Kingdom

Lead the M² Web Platform Team, building the Game Server Hosting and Web Services teams and underlying Platform to enable the creation and operation of all Improbable Metaverses.• Management of 16 engineers and Tech Leads• Align Web Platform processes and software design with business goals strategy.• Improve intake and development processes for improved cadence and output alignment.• Build product strategy & vision, set goals & service levels, review technical aspects of deliverables andgoals for the M² Platform using Jira, Confluence, C4 models, Agile methodologies• Build and maintain features and services to enable customers and internal teams with golang, typescript, PostgreSQL, firebase, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Helm, terraform• Grow agile and DevOps practices to support a modern software development culture with GitHub• Transition software development to cloud native practices and tooling for Game Hosting and Management• Manage platform service levels and incidents with blameless post-mortems with Grafana Cloud, DataDog, Confluence, PagerDuty, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Slack• Enable continuous delivery by evolving deployment processes and tools, adopting infrastructure-as-code and continuously improve infrastructure with Terraform, BuildKite, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Perforce

London, England, United Kingdom

Build and maintain the LiveOps Game Server Hosting for Scavengers as a Senior LiveOps Engineer.• Roadmap & backlog planning, execution & operation with Atlassian Suite(Jira, OpsGenie, Confluence)• Build and maintain features and services to enable Game Studio and internal teams with golang, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Agones, Kubernetes, Helm, terraform• Grow agile and DevOps practices to support a modern software development culture with GitHub, BuildKite, Slack• Do blameless post-mortems with Grafana Cloud, Confluence, OpsGenie, Prometheus, Slack• Enable continuous delivery by evolving deployment processes and tools, adopting infrastructure-as-code and continuously improve infrastructure with Terraform, BuildKite, GitHub, Perforce

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Lead 2 Platform Teams in building and improving the core platform services and architecture for Funda, ensuring good development practices, high performance, maintainability, reliability, team health and coaching.• Manage and coach 8 backend engineers in 2 platform teams• Build product strategy & vision, set goals & service levels, review technical aspects of deliverables andgoals with Aha, Jira, Confluence, C4 models, Agile methodologies• Build and maintain features and services to enable other development teams with C#, MS SQL, AzureKubernetes, Redis, ServiceBus• Grow agile and DevOps practices to support a modern software development culture• Transition software development to cloud native practices and tooling• Manage platform service levels and incidents with blameless post-mortems with Azure ApplicationInsights, DataDog, Confluence• Enable continuous delivery by evolving deployment processes and tools, adopting infrastructure-as-codeand continuously improve infrastructure with Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Bamboo, BitBucket

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Architect and Lead the design, build and operation of a novel E-Learning SaaS product in the Hospitality industry.• Relocate our engineering department from Cape Town to Amsterdam• Lead the back-end and operations development of an e-learning platform• Build and maintain features and services to drive new business opportunities with C#, MS SQL, CosmosDB, Redis, ServiceBus, GraphQL, Typescript, Angular• Lead and manage teams of developers with various skill sets, processes and goals• Enable continuous delivery by evolving deployment processes and tools, adopting infrastructure-as-code and continuous improvement of service infrastructure code with ARM, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub• Transition the platform from a niche, small scale solution to a large, enterprise scale solution• Manage platform service levels and incidents with blameless post-mortems with Azure Application Insights, OpsGenie, Confluence• Manage all infrastructure and related functions, such as infrastructure provisioning, DNS changes, test environments, scaling and costing• Lead devops adoption by promoting cross-pollination of job functions, removing silos and automating churn

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Lead a team of remote developers• Build and maintain features for e-learning applications in Golang, Javascript, MongoDb, PHP, MySql• Build and maintain infrastructure on AWS with Apache, nginx, Stackato• Automate the deployment of applications with TravisCI

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Lead a team of developers with SCRUMBuild and maintain features for lending applications in ASP.NET, Javascript, MS SQLBuild and configure infrastructure on bare metal servers with Windows Server 2012 and IISAutomate the deployment of applications with GitHub and JenkinsSuccessfully developed and launched the first ever online lending application in South Africa. It fully integrates with the legacy financial system and processes.The work environment required planning, aligning and working with multiple 3rd parties, designers, analysts and auditors.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Lead a team of developers with SCRUMDesign and build a consumer based vehicle tracking application with Ruby and JavascriptDesign and build provisioning system for vehicle telemetry systems with AngularJS, ASP.Net and .Net servicesMove applications from Silverlight to ASP.Net and AgnularJSAutomate the deployment of applications with GitHub and Jenkins

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Lead and oversee the new development and innovation area.All existing duties of the senior engineer role.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Lead project negotiation, documentation, design and implementation from start-to-finish.All existing duties of the software engineer role.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Build and maintain software solutions in the logistics industry for international and local clients using C#, Windows Mobile, MS SQL, Javascript and DelphiSolutions in logistics would include Warehouse Management, Freight Forwarding, Financial system integration and other 3rd Party System integration.

C/C++ Languages, Software

Computer Science Diploma, Software

Education record

Afrikaans HG, English HG, Math HG, Computer Studies HG, Science HG, Accounting SG