Marco van Staden

Leads engineering across product delivery, platform direction and operational systems.

• Designed secure GitHub and Azure DevOps governance with RBAC and automated build, test and deployment pipelines.
• Automated mobile delivery to the Apple App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery with fastlane.
• Embedded AI-assisted review, code-standard enforcement and technical knowledge workflows into engineering delivery.

Led stabilization and greenfield re-architecture of a Kubernetes-based consumer platform.

• Resolved systemic runtime failures with horizontal scaling, Uvicorn and Gunicorn optimization, node redundancy and structured observability.
• Led a cloud-native re-architecture on Cloud Run using Flutter, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker and asynchronous REST services.
• Built capacity-planning models and validated database and backend assumptions with custom load and pressure testing.
• Contributed full-stack product work across workouts, nutrition, subscriptions and challenge progression.

Built and secured infrastructure across cloud systems and remote mining environments.

• Designed secure company-wide VPN infrastructure and centralized remote access.
• Implemented automated backup and disaster-recovery safeguards across source, databases and operational data.
• Built Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail observability with canary monitoring.
• Delivered Linux infrastructure and production scanning-system upgrades in remote mining environments.

Designed cloud, mobile and integration systems for consulting, IoT and FinTech products.

• Built automated CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment times by 50%.
• Architected a Flutter application and Google Cloud backend supporting 80% of an IoT startup's functional operation.
• Applied cloud infrastructure to high-throughput FinTech systems delivered with Google and Deloitte collaborators.

Builds web products, backend services, automated cloud delivery and monitored hosting for startup clients.

• Delivered React, Vue, Next.js and WordPress websites.
• Built Flask and FastAPI services backed by MongoDB and Redis.
• Automated Google Cloud, AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible.

Applied data collection and analysis to improve product-price competitiveness.

• Automated price-competitiveness analysis across the company's product range.
• Used SQL, Python and web scraping to turn public web content into market insights.