hello there

this is me, christoff linde

I love to program. I spend most of my time going down rabbit holes: be it new tech or frameworks, tools, or music. Otherwise, you'll find me watering my plants, playing guitar, or planning the next side-project.

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expereince

AWS Data Engineer

@ BMW IT Hub ZA

  • experience in building data pipelines for bmw-related data using aws glue/emr pyspark jobs and relevant supporting infrastructure deployed with terraform
  • authored and contributed to various tools to improve engineer efficiency in documentation and data validation/testing workflows
  • part of enabling team to build ai-powered tools for data engineering workflows
  • design & implementation of data quality web api and react-based frontend
  • mentoring of junior/graduate engineers.

Apache Iceberg

Apache PySpark

AWS

docker

FastAPI

GitHub Copilot

python

SQL

Terraform

VSCode

Junior Software Developer

@ Teamgeek

  • voted geek of the year (employee of the year) for 2023 by my colleagues
  • assisted in development of django & fastapi backed services for Yoco
  • frontend development of Yoco website
  • assisting in planning, prioritising, and assigning of tasks to team members
  • custom lead generator service

Django

docker

gatsby.js

graphql

python

tailwindcss

Web Development Intern

@ Teamgeek

  • frontend development using gatsbyjs for various clients
  • working with GraphQL API for static site generation

gatsby.js

graphql

react

tailwindcss

typescript

education

BIS (HONS) Multimedia

@ University of Pretoria

2022-01

to

2024-06

BIS Multimedia

@ University of Pretoria

2018-01

to

2021-12

licences & certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

@ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

@ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Architecting Solutions on AWS

@ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

my favourite rabbit holes so far

  • diy iot and smart home project
  • digital twins using unreal engine
  • building virtual reality experiences
  • 3d fractals (mandelbulbs) rendered in blender and algorithmically generated art
  • building a digital second brain through notes
  • photography
  • performance tuning and profiling for python
  • world war 2 history

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