- topic lead for agentic data engineering workflow/platform (multi-agent flow built with DeepAgents and agent skills, hosted on AgentCore)
- team lead for development stream for agentic data engineering workflow/platform as part of greater enabling data engineering team
- mentoring of junior/graduate engineers
- implementation of development standards across GitHub organisation (code and infrastructure)
- built custom tools for data engineering & team management flows
- maintenance of github copilot-integrated visual studio code extension
- member of architecture board for enabling data engineering team
- assisted in cost optimisation topic for data engineering teams as part of greater cost optimisation drive across global teams
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.
admittedly, some of the things i build have zero purpose other than to invent a problem so that i can solve it with another invented solution. how else will we learn?
be it some elaborate iot project that starts as a simple mcu and ends in some elaborate digital-twin-stream-analytics-rabbitmq-golang thing; a weather tracking app; family recipes app; or even this website (and maybe even eventual tui... soon™); building and exploring random things is what i love. exploring new concepts, tools, linters, formatters, frameworks, languages, and whatever else happens across my github feed that seems remotely interesting keeps my brain busy.
i can't imagine a world where you regret knowing at least something about as many things as possible.
find me
expereince
ai engineer
@ BMW IT Hub ZA
Agent Skills
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS
DeepAgents
FastAPI
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot SDK
Grafana Stack (Grafana, Loki, Faro, Alloy)
LangGraph
OpenTelemetry
PostgreSQL
python
Terraform
AWS Data Engineer
@ BMW IT Hub ZA
- team lead working on agentic data engineering workflows
- mentoring of junior/graduate engineers
- building of GitHub copilot-integrated visual studio code extension
- part of enabling engineering team to build ai-first tools for data engineering workflows
- design & implementation of data quality fastapi backend and react-based microfrontend
- 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
Apache Iceberg
Apache PySpark
AWS
docker
FastAPI
GitHub Copilot
graphql
python
react
SQL
Terraform
Terraform
typescript
VSCode
Junior Software Developer
@ Teamgeek
- voted geek of the year (employee of the year) for 2023 by my colleagues
- 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
- introducing new linting/formatting tools on python codebases
Django
docker
gatsby.js
graphql
nextjs
python
react
tailwindcss
typescript
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)
Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS
@ 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
somehow i always keep coming back to these...
- 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
currently investigating/on the list
in no particular order. this is just some of the things I keep myself busy with... yes i know this is a lot... the more the merrier right?
- building terminal uis with golang (and hopefully even a version of this website - coming soon?)
- using terragrunt with GCP as alternative to terraform and AWS digital twins using unreal engine
- hosting my own ssh server with tui
- n8n and the whole agentic ai workflow thing
- bento stream processing framework
- apache datafusion ballista and datafusion comet as replacement for pyspark
- building my own homelab server to host my many a side projects
- next-generation web tooling (oxfmt, oxlint, biomejs as replacement for eslint & prettier)
- lightweight, performant (and portable) db - duckdb
- sqlite (more specifically tursodb)