Ivor Pietersen

Cloud Architect and Systems Designer with experience designing governance, continuity, automation, cloud platforms, and data ecosystems across enterprise environments. Recognised for aligning business objectives with practical technical solutions, reducing operational complexity, and improving organisational knowledge retention through well-structured cloud architectures.

Founder & Cloud Architect at LAKKA (2025-01 – Present)

Founded and architected a cloud-native continuity and governance initiative focused on preserving organisational knowledge, operational context, decision history, and workflow continuity across fragmented systems.

• Designed persistent-context, traceability, and evidence-based workflow concepts.
• Defined platform architecture, roadmap, and deployment strategy.

Data Engineer (Contract) at Nexus Data (2024-11 – 2025-05)

• Enhanced Azure Databricks environments and automation processes.
• Improved reliability and operational efficiency across data workloads.

Data Engineer at BCX (2023-07 – 2024-09)

• Led evaluations of SaaS and cloud platform solutions.
• Supported governance, infrastructure, enterprise integration, Terraform and automation practices.

Data Engineer at Telkom (2020-02 – 2023-06)

• Managed GCP architecture, governance, and security initiatives.
• Implemented optimisation strategies resulting in significant cost reductions.

Data Science Diploma / Academy Programme in Data Science (2019-01 – 2019-12)