Lawrence Serfontein

Lawrence Serfontein has a diverse work experience spanning multiple roles and companies. Lawrence began their career in 2007 as a Linux Administrator at RNA Distribution and later joined First National Bank as a Systems Administrator. After gaining experience in system engineering, they transitioned into the role of System Engineering Technical Specialist at First National Bank. In 2015, Serfontein joined LSD Information Technology as a Senior Linux Consultant. Lawrence then joined Derivco in 2016, where they held the positions of Open Sourcerer and Technical Specialist. In 2020, they joined Snowplow Analytics as a Site Reliability Engineer, followed by a position at Tink in the same role. Currently, they are employed as a Site Reliability Engineer at Playground Tech.

Lawrence Serfontein's education history is as follows:

- In 1990 to 2002, Lawrence attended De La Salle Holy Cross College. The degree and field of study are not specified.

- In 2008, Lawrence obtained a Red Hat Certified Engineer certification from Red Hat Inc.

- In 2012, Lawrence completed the Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management program offered by Red Hat Inc.

- In 2013, Lawrence obtained the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening from Red Hat Inc.

- In 2015, Lawrence completed the Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack program offered by Red Hat Inc. Additionally, Lawrence obtained certificates from SUSE, including one in SUSE Manager 2.1 and another in Clustering with the SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and a SAN.

- In 2016, Lawrence obtained the Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification.

Furthermore, Lawrence has obtained additional certifications in the field, including RHCE, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Hybrid Cloud Management, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate, Terraform Associate from HashiCorp, and Google Qualified Systems Operations Professional.

It's worth noting that Lawrence has pursued continuous education and certifications, as evidenced by the recent certifications obtained in 2021, 2022, and 2023.