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Ricus Nortje | SRE Architect

Architect at Capitec Bank | 17+ years building reliable, scalable systems

I design and build high-availability systems with a focus on SRE principles, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps culture. My career spans from hands-on development to architectural leadership across fintech, backup/disaster recovery, and ed-tech industries.

What I Do

  • Site Reliability Engineering — Designing systems for 99.99%+ uptime with proper SLOs, monitoring, and incident response
  • Cloud Architecture — AWS-first infrastructure with cost optimization, auto-scaling, and multi-region deployments
  • Platform Engineering — Building internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared libraries
  • AI-Powered Tooling — Building LLM-powered code review and documentation generation systems
  • System Modernization — Migrating monoliths to microservices with API gateways and event-driven patterns

Tech Stack

Languages

C#  Java  Go  Python  TypeScript 

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS  Kubernetes  Terraform  Docker  Helm  ArgoCD  Vault 

Observability & Data

Prometheus  Grafana  ElasticSearch  Redis 

Messaging & Databases

Apache Kafka  Amazon SQS  SQL Server  MySQL 

AI & Automation

Amazon Bedrock  Claude  GitHub Actions  Ollama 

Featured Projects

Project Description Tech
prometheus-logstash-exporter Prometheus metrics exporter for Logstash monitoring Go
ai-codebase-scribe AI-powered documentation generator using multiple LLM providers Python
tbutil-tb-cache-manager Caching abstraction library for .NET applications C#
tbutil-tb-logging-dotnet Structured JSON logging built on Serilog C#
tbutil-tb-messaging-sqs AWS SQS messaging utilities for .NET C#

Career Highlights

  • Capitec Bank — Architect for mobile app platform and SRE (2023–Present)
  • Redstor — Platform engineering for disaster recovery systems (2022–2023)
  • UNi4 Online — Built cloud-first ed-tech platform from scratch (2020–2022)
  • Zapper — 5+ years as DevOps/SRE for fintech payments platform (2014–2020)

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Beyond Code

When I'm not architecting systems, I explore generative AI for creative projects — producing AI-generated art and music. Check out my experiments on YouTube and TikTok.

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  1. advent-of-code advent-of-code Public

    Advent of Code solutions

    Python 1 1

  2. firebot-giveaway-obs-overlay firebot-giveaway-obs-overlay Public

    HTML 1

  3. prometheus-logstash-exporter prometheus-logstash-exporter Public

    Forked from SAP/prometheus-logstash-exporter

    Prometheus exporter for Logstash metrics

    Go

  4. tbutil-tb-cache-manager tbutil-tb-cache-manager Public

    This caching library provides a simplified abstraction over [CacheManager](http://cachemanager.michaco.net/) by wrapping cache configuration into generic providers and invalidators.

    C#

  5. tbutil-tb-logging-dotnet tbutil-tb-logging-dotnet Public

    Custom .NET logging with fully-structured events built on top of [Serilog](https://serilog.net/) that write logs in JSON format

    C#

  6. tbutil-tb-messaging-sqs tbutil-tb-messaging-sqs Public

    C#