Jean-Pierre Pienaar

• Created strategies that propelled business forward in industry with a clear focus on Azure Partnership and AWS Well Architected Frameworks.
• Lead engagements to build an enterprise scale API gateway solution for the largest retailer in North America
• Gathered process and operational information, organized points and analyzed trends in order to provide current and useful information in support of business decision making with a focus on Devops maturity.
• Reviewed company needs and developed actionable solutions to resolve problems and plan for future growth for multiple customers in the retail sector.

Technologies:

• AWS, Azure, Python, NodeJs, Terraform, Azure Devops, Steampipe

• Heading up the optimization and modernization department in the cloud space
• Solutions auditing to ensure that organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, follow and understand best practices
• Not purely from a technical standpoint but bringing in business and stakeholders into the decision-making process
• Building and architecting an AWS Native serverless
• Data Lake Solution
• Leading a team in the full software development lifecycle
• Creating pipelines for aggregating data from on- prem systems via DB and API connections to AWS
• Data engineering to extract-transform-load (ETL) data to meet specific business rules and logic
• Tracking and enforcing cloud governance through data

Technologies:

• AWS, Python, NodeJs, C#, Terraform, PySpark,Quicksight, Azure

• Designed and implemented a bespoke cloud governance SaaS (software as a service) solution as a passion project that was later adopted by Synthesis Software Technologies
• Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff
• Roll-out and maintenance of SSO (single sign-on) solution hosted at Investec
• Implement Solution for MFA (multi-factor authentication) authentication using mobile application
• Building an Angular mobile application for CIM merchants to digitize the lay-by processes in Mauritius
• Design and manage AWS stack that application is hosted on
• Configure and manage VPN gateway between customer and AWS
• Up-skilling and enablement of Absa development teams on AWS
• Assistance with Migration of Absa applications to AWS
• Architect and implement AWS Landing Zone
• Implementation of IAM policies for controlled use of AWS for application teams
• General AWS account vending pipelines and processes
• AWS Cloud Enablement

Technologies:

• C#, F#, C++, AWS, Python, NodeJs, Git, Terraform, Angular, Docker, Powershell scripting, Packer, Cloud Custodian, Splunk, Linux, Ansible

• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
• Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces
• Analysis, requirement harboring and documentation of the software specifications
• Implementation of Linux based C++ application to record seeker telemetry at Gbps speeds over Ethernet
• Android application development for wireless video streaming and remote control interfacing to the TOBS (tactical observation ball)
• Embedded C development of the TI CC3200 wireless MCU unit
• C++ backend DLL to capture range-doppler map data over Ethernet from the seeker head

Technologies:

• Android, C, C++, SVN, Java, Linux, VHDL, Matlab, Latex, Python, VHDL, Embedded C, Yaml, HDF5