Adriaan Pelzer

Adriaan Pelzer is Chief Architect at Clause, Crypto Developer. Creative Technologist. Mostly code Social API's these days. And makes music. I join organisations with a hard problem that can be solved with technology, then proceed to do just that, usually within a two year timeframe. During this time, I iteratively build out a soundly designed architecture, as well as a highly skilled team to own, support, and expand upon that architecture. I see my work as done when the platform is capable of scaling tenfold, and the team is capable of expanding the platform to hundredfold and beyond. The skills I rely on to accomplish this are: I’m a very skilled engineer. My skills cover the entire stack, from electronic hardware through assembler, C to high end languages like Javascript. I'm a highly experienced Software Architect. I have extensive experience designing, building and maintaining custom cloud systems, mainly on AWS, using a wide variety of their services. I aggressively adopt new services and evolve new architectural patterns around them, leveraging them in innovative ways. I'm passionate about building teams of highly creative engineers who have a drive to think laterally, and I love the challenge of figuring out how to maximise their potential to enable rapid innovation. I've worked with countless really gifted people so far in my career, and I'm always humbled and fascinated by the properties people display, and ideas they come up with, when given enough freedom and a rich enough environment to do so. Combining these qualities enables me to build highly efficient units of innovation, who, by failing fast & often, iterate towards successful innovation at an optimal rate. Specialties: Innovation, disruption, rapid development, fluid org structures, Lean, Node.js, Javascript, C, HTML, CSS, Redis, NoSQL, MySQL, AWS, FreeBSD, Linux, Assembler, hardware (small signal analog & digital electronics).