Loyalty NZ
ER Hapal is a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and automation. Currently at Loyalty NZ since October 2018, ER has played a pivotal role in establishing Terraform for AWS resource provisioning, managing Kubernetes clusters, and modernizing legacy architectures. Prior experience includes significant contributions as a DevOps Engineer at Stuff, where ER automated CI/CD processes and utilized monitoring tools like Grafana and Elastic Stack. Previous roles range from a Data Entry position at the Ministry of Justice to a Pre-sales Consultant at Oracle, covering a comprehensive background in software development, system architecture, and DevOps practices. ER holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Ateneo de Manila University.
Loyalty NZ
Launched in 1996, Loyalty New Zealand is New Zealand’s expert on customer loyalty. We specialise in the clever use of big data to help Kiwi businesses know more about what their customers want from them, and how they can best deliver it. We’re most famous for the Fly Buys programme, which has over 2.4 million cardholders across 74% of New Zealand households, and partners with 40 industry-leading brands. LAB360, our specialist data analytics and insights business, helps companies use data in clever ways to finesse their business strategy and get outstanding results. Doing this field-leading work is our expert team of analysts, marketers, data miners and designers. We’ve got a team of more than 115 across our Auckland and Wellington offices, plus a customer service centre for our members. Backing up the Loyalty New Zealand team are our major shareholders: New World (Foodstuffs), State (IAG), BNZ and Z Energy.