// 04 — Operations Log

Meelan Lakhoo

DevSecOps Engineer · 2018→Present
// Summary
Senior DevSecOps Engineer with 8+ years across cloud platforms, data systems, and frontend infrastructure. I architect Zero Trust networks, automate secure CI/CD, instrument production for observability, and write infrastructure-as-code that survives audits. A full-stack background keeps me close to the code that ships through those pipelines.
// Work history
May 2025 — Present
Senior Data Engineer
Monocle Solutions
Embedded into an IFRS 17 regulatory reporting programme at Lombard Insurance. Responsible for data pipeline design, lineage modelling, and translating actuarial reporting requirements into production-grade GCP data flows.
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Designed end-to-end IFRS 17 data pipelines on GCP (BigQuery, DBT).
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Modelled data lineage so regulatory audits trace directly to source tables.
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Translated IFRS 17 requirements into schema definitions.
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Collaborated with actuarial and finance teams to validate calculation outputs.
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Nov 2024 — Apr 2025
Senior Data Engineer
Planet42
Designed and implemented data pipelines for credit-bureau reporting and real-time vehicle telemetry.
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Prepared and submitted SACRRA reports for the credit bureaus.
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Built GPS-based vehicle analytics using a state machine.
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Zero Trust networking with AWS SSM — no public-internet ingress.
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Codified data workflows with Airflow on EKS.
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Sep 2023 — Nov 2024
Lead Front End Engineer
VAT Compliance
Led the frontend team for a six-month platform rewrite. Treated supply-chain risk as a first-class concern.
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Implemented a monorepo with TurboRepo and Next.js.
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Automated service-layer generation from OpenAPI specs.
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Enforced design-system + dependency policies in CI.
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Mentored engineers and established review standards.
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Jul 2022 — Aug 2023
Full Stack Software Engineer
Superb APS
Enhanced application architecture and locked down data workflows so consumers could prove what they touched.
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Migrated Snowflake data to an AWS-based data lake.
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Used Argo Workflows for orchestration; IAM least-privilege throughout.
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Introduced Athena audit queries for downstream consumers.
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Optimized RESTful APIs and MongoDB databases.
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Mar 2021 — Jun 2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
VATGlobal
Architected secure AWS EKS environments. Treated identity, observability, and IaC as the same project.
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Implemented Zero Trust with Cloudflare Access.
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Deployed Grafana / Prometheus stack for EKS observability.
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Codified infrastructure with Pulumi.
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Led Kubernetes deployment scalability projects.
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Feb 2018 — Mar 2020
Data Analyst — Vehicle Finance
ABSA Bank
Supported vehicle-finance strategies with data analysis. First exposure to production access controls and audit trails.
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Analyzed vehicle purchasing patterns with PySpark.
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Built predictive models for vehicle brand forecasts.
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Designed data marts from Hive and Oracle sources.
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Presented insights to credit-risk stakeholders.
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// Education
Jan 2017 — Dec 2017
BSc Honours · Big Data Analytics
University of the Witwatersrand
Jan 2014 — Dec 2016
BSc Computer Science · Applied Computing
University of the Witwatersrand
// Strengths
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Designing zero-trust architectures across AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare
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Codifying infrastructure with Pulumi / Terraform; reviews over tickets
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Wiring observability (Prometheus / Grafana / OpenTelemetry) into production
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Bridging security review and data audit through shared lineage
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Bringing eight years of full-stack instinct to the platform layer
© 2026 Meelan Lakhoo
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DevSecOps · Cloud · Platform