Riaan Kleinhans Email & Phone Number

Riaan's key strength is ensuring the team reaches the goal. What was promised get delivered!Technical Program Manager at The Linux Foundation Nov 2023 -Technical Project Manager for a dynamic software company in New Zealand. 2020 - 2023, Working on the Kubernetes Conformance and -infrastructure projects. Overseeing the on-time delivery of Strategic Initiatives for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Bringing order and focused direction to the brilliant work of very talented visionaries, programmers, and developers. Shifting from the Automotive manufacturing world to Open-source Riaan had to learn a lot of new industry skills.- Disposed of the Window laptop and learned all about open-source solutions, Linux, K8s, boosting productivity with Emacs & Org-mode- Stepped into the world of Slack, Github, Gitlab, Project boards, Issues and Pull requests, managing labels, Golang code, and more- Leading open source community meetings- Writing Kubernetes Conformance in Golang- Driving the Kubernetes Conformance project to ever-increasing test coverage through community engagement- Monitor and support tooling and update as needed (apisnoop en cncf-infra sites)Riaan loves data and upskilled to use SQL, Google BigQuery, and Data Studio on enormous data sets. Previously, Senior Project Manager for a large German automotive supplier. Responsible for Technical Project Management and Project industrialization in Southern Africa and Botswana production plants and Logistics center. Automotive System- and Process auditor, trainer for VDA | QMC via ENCONA. More than 15 years of automotive industry experience, extremely knowledgeable in every aspect of the automotive manufacturing industry and product life cycle.- Project manager at an International scale for Daimler and other OEM's- Automotive system & process auditor- Deep knowledge about automotive industry requirements and standards- Qualified and Registered automotive standards trainer for VDA | QMC Germany- Still actively giving Maturity level Assurance and risk management trainingHaving worked in various departments throughout the industry, learned to be flexible and adaptable in any position with vast international exposure and experience.

Listed skills include Iatf 16949 Auditor, Six Sigma, Advanced Product Quality Planning, Iatf 16949, and 24 others.