Adriaan Fourie - Senior Field Engineer for Observability, SRE & Cloud Platforms

Q: Where is Adriaan based?

Adriaan is based in Budapest, Hungary and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Adriaan speak?

Adriaan speaks the following languages: Afrikaans (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), German (Intermediate) .

Q: How many years of experience does Adriaan have?

Adriaan has at least 11 years of experience. During this time, Adriaan has worked in at least 7 different roles and for 6 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 6 months . Note that Adriaan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Adriaan's latest experience?

Adriaan's most recent position is From Telemetry Signals to Useful Decisions - Public Workshop at Skakelaar .

Q: What companies has Adriaan worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Adriaan has worked for Skakelaar , Enterprise Security , DeFi & Web3 , Payments / Finance , and Automotive / IoT .

Q: Which industries is Adriaan most experienced in?

Adriaan is most experienced in industries like Information Technology , Automotive , and Banking and Finance .

Q: Which business areas is Adriaan most experienced in?

Adriaan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Operations , and Product Development . Adriaan also has some experience in Research and Development .

Q: Which industries has Adriaan worked in recently?

Adriaan has recently worked in industries like Information Technology , Automotive , and Banking and Finance .

Q: Which business areas has Adriaan worked in recently?

Adriaan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Operations , and Product Development .

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Budapest, Hungary

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Experience

Jan 2026 - Dec 2026

1 year

From Telemetry Signals to Useful Decisions - Public Workshop

Skakelaar

Designed a 75-minute, vendor-neutral workshop shaped by platform onboarding, production monitoring and centralised-pipeline POC lessons, with explicit learning objectives, demo architecture and a practical worksheet.
Covers signal selection, instrumentation intent, traces/spans, safe high-cardinality attributes, collector pipelines, dashboards as consumers and SLO/error-budget reasoning.
Companion project: Observability Coach, an in-development local-first learning product.

Jan 2026 - Dec 2026

1 year

PavedPath - Platform Architecture Portfolio

Skakelaar

Created an interactive portfolio that communicates platform, migration, reliability and developer-enablement concepts through sanitized architecture stories.
Any simulated UI is portfolio demonstration material, not represented as a client production dashboard.

Jan 2025 - Dec 2026

2 years

TechOps Platform Engineer / Platform Engineer

Enterprise Security

Produced onboarding guides and worked across a mature AWS/Azure estate with Datadog, Grafana, cloud/service monitors, delivery tooling and operational platforms.
Moved into building the internal developer platform, turning repeated operational work into reusable capabilities for engineering teams.
Contributed to centralised-observability POCs using the LGTM stack, Grafana Alloy and Teleport to explore tenant federation and telemetry collection across hybrid clouds.

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Senior DevOps / SRE

DeFi & Web3

Improved developer experience and delivery reliability with reusable GitLab, Argo CD, Kubernetes and Azure GitOps delivery patterns.

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Senior Platform Engineer & SRE

Payments / Finance

Support safe migration of production workloads from private datacentres to AWS, spanning application, infrastructure and network observability.
Manage New Relic configuration, dashboards and alerts as code with Terraform and Ansible; investigate JVM/process, Apache/IHS, IBM MQ, database and network signals.
Work with Fluent Bit, structured/manual log parsing, site-to-site connectivity and transit networking to connect telemetry to operational decisions during private-datacentre-to-AWS migration.
Create and deliver internal observability-as-code enablement for engineers operating Java, Kubernetes and cloud services.

Jan 2018 - Dec 2024

7 years

DevOps Engineer & SRE

Automotive / IoT

Worked with production Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and EFK logging for Kubernetes and legacy Java EE/GlassFish and PostgreSQL workloads, including mutual-TLS context.
Used the TICK stack to turn battery-farm telemetry into operational views for charge and capacity optimisation.
Built and operated AWS EKS and Azure AKS platforms with Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD and SaltStack; AWS context included Nexus, SonarQube and certificate management, alongside redundancy, backup, rollback and recovery automation.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2018

3 years

Infrastructure Engineer

Fintech

Started in infrastructure and production operations across networks, Active Directory/Kerberos and backups; then helped transition monoliths toward Kubernetes-based microservices and hybrid cloud.
Worked with Kong, Ansible, Octopus Deploy and early ELK log aggregation while retaining strong Linux, network, storage and incident troubleshooting foundations.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Automotive, and Banking and Finance.

Information Technology

Automotive

Banking and Finance

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Operations, Product Development, and Research and Development.

Information Technology

Operations

Product Development

Research and Development

Summary

Senior platform and SRE engineer with 9+ years across fintech, automotive/IoT, DeFi, payments and enterprise security. Production experience spans Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, Terraform, Grafana/Prometheus, Datadog, EFK and New Relic observability-as-code across legacy and cloud platforms. Recent work moved from TechOps onboarding into internal developer-platform engineering and centralised-observability POCs. I translate operating constraints into architecture, enablement and technical workshops without claiming a prior presales title.

Skills

Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Tick, Aws/Azure Monitors, Elk/Efk, Fluent Bit, Jvm/Process And Kubernetes/Cloud Telemetry, Lgtm, Grafana Alloy, Teleport, Tenant Federation And Hybrid-Cloud Pipelines, Opentelemetry Concepts, Traces/Spans, Cardinality And Slos
Cloud/Platform: Aws (Eks, S3, Ec2, Networking), Azure (Aks And Platform Services), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Argo Cd, Github Actions, Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, Saltstack And Internal Developer Platforms
Engineering: Java/Spring Ecosystem, Python, Go, Javascript/Typescript, Linux, Http/Tls/Dns, Postgresql, Mongodb, Redis, Kafka, Messaging And Service Troubleshooting
Communication: Onboarding Guides, Technical Workshops, Enablement Material, Architecture Walkthroughs, Operational Documentation, Cross-Team Problem Framing And Developer Support

Languages

Afrikaans

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Advanced

German

Intermediate

Education

Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

UNISA

Bachelors · International Relations · Pretoria, South Africa

International and African Politics, Communications, Economics and foreign language studies.

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 7

Experience in Information Technology 10.5 y

Avg length 2 y

Longest experience 6 y 11 m

Expertise

Recent roles From Telemetry Signals to Useful Decisions - Public Workshop, PavedPath - Platform Architecture Portfolio, TechOps Platform Engineer / Platform Engineer

Main industries Information Technology, Automotive, Banking and Finance

Main business areas Information Technology, Operations, Product Development

Qualifications

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Created

July 2026

Last Update

July 2026

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Where is Adriaan based?

Adriaan is based in Budapest, Hungary and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Adriaan speak?

Adriaan speaks the following languages: Afrikaans (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), German (Intermediate).

How many years of experience does Adriaan have?

Adriaan has at least 11 years of experience. During this time, Adriaan has worked in at least 7 different roles and for 6 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 6 months. Note that Adriaan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Adriaan be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Adriaan would be well-suited for roles such as: From Telemetry Signals to Useful Decisions - Public Workshop, PavedPath - Platform Architecture Portfolio, TechOps Platform Engineer / Platform Engineer.

What is Adriaan's latest experience?

Adriaan's most recent position is From Telemetry Signals to Useful Decisions - Public Workshop at Skakelaar.

What companies has Adriaan worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Adriaan has worked for Skakelaar, Enterprise Security, DeFi & Web3, Payments / Finance, and Automotive / IoT.

Which industries is Adriaan most experienced in?

Adriaan is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Banking and Finance.

Which business areas is Adriaan most experienced in?

Adriaan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development. Adriaan also has some experience in Research and Development.

Which industries has Adriaan worked in recently?

Adriaan has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Banking and Finance.

Which business areas has Adriaan worked in recently?

Adriaan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development.

What is Adriaan's education?

Adriaan attended UNISA for International Relations.

What is the availability of Adriaan?

Adriaan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Adriaan?

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