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• AWS Principal Consultant, Appvia

  Sep, 2023 - Present

  Leading a team of 5 DevOps Engineers in building out secure gateways (both public and private) for the UK government. Responsible for rearchitecting, coding, and implementing a solution to replace virtual machines with cloud native services to increase reliabilty, decrease complexity, and save money.

  • Consultancy: Government

  • AWS Transit Gateway

  • AWS Network Firewall & WAF

  • DevSecOps

  • Terraform

  • Gitlab Pipelines

  • Nginx

  • HAProxy

  • Python

  • Bash

• Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Publicis Sapient

  Dec, 2021 - Oct, 20231 year 10 months

  Lead a team of 5 - 16 engineers (variable) on a Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP) which accelerates the development of secure and compliant cloud-based applications on Azure, AWS, & GCP. Its modular design, pre-built templates, DevOps pipelines, and built-in support for monitoring and logging enable faster and more reliable application development. Regularly mentored engineers and designed solutions to fulfill customers' requirements.

  • Consultancy: financial services & banking

  • Terraform

  • AWS, Azure, GCP

  • Kubernetes

  • Machine Learning

  • Gitlab Pipelines

  • Bash

  • Go

• Principal Consultant, Contino

  May, 2020 - Dec, 20211 year 7 months

  As the SRE Lead for a team of engineers, provided secure solutions for the Nationl Crime Agency (NCA) to extract intelligence from multiple data sources. As an individual contributor, wrote reusable IaC code (terraform) and DevOps pipelines to build Sagemaker services for data scientists.

  • Consultancy: Government

  • Terraform

  • AWS Sagemaker

  • Machine Learning

  • Containerisation

  • Security Clearance

  • Python

• Director, DaveOps Ltd

  Apr, 2014 - May, 20206 years 1 month

  Limited company for contract work (dissolved)

  • Consultancy: DevOps

• Cloud Native Technologist, Fujitsu UK

  Jun, 2019 - Apr, 202010 months

  As the DevOps Team Lead for a team of engineers, migrated legacy applications and databases from an on-premise datacenter to the Azure cloud.

  • Consultancy: Government

  • Azure

  • MS SQL

  • Legacy applications

  • Windows Servers

  • Terraform

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Equal Experts

  Apr, 2017 - May, 20192 years 1 month

  Focused on continuous improvement of systems using DevOps principles.

  Projects:

  INTERSECTION - NEW YORK
  Stabilised the build and deployment of the client's fleet of IoT devices spread across New York City. Tools used included Ansible, Datadog, fpm, python, aws cli, etc.

  SIEMENS HEALTHCARE - GERMANY
  As the DevOps Lead on a DevOps transformation project, setup a continuous delivery system to deploy containerised applications on kubernetes clusters in Azure.

  THREE - READING
  Within 2 months, setup the frontend and backed in AWS from scratch for a mobile app loyalty program. Used all cloud native tools (AWS cloud build, AWS Cloudformation, AWs ElasticBeanstalk, etc) to accelerate the development,build, and deploy pipelines.

  HMRC - CANARY WHARF/MANCHESTER
  Member of twelve person team responsible for the running of the tax platform consisting of over 800 microservices, using combination of custom docker orchestration software and Kubernetes.

  • Consultancy: Government, Communications, and Healthcare

  • Ansible

  • Terraform

  • Cloudformation

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • IOT

  • docker

  • microservices

  • Python

  • Ruby

  • bash

• Platform Lead, Wickes

  Jun, 2016 - Mar, 20179 months

  Designed and implemented the company's greenfield migration to the AWS cloud from parent company's on-prem infrastructure. One of the outcomes was a stable delivery pipeline for building and deploying AWS machine images for an integration middleware product (WSO2 EBS).

  • ecommerce

  • AWS

  • Codepipeline

  • WSO2

  • EC2

  • AMI

  • Packer

  • Cloudformation

• DevOps/WebOps, Government Digital Service

  Mar, 2016 - May, 20162 months

  Wrote puppet configuration management code to manage the GOV.UK website

  • Puppet

  • github

• Solutions Architect, Salmon

  Sep, 2015 - Mar, 20166 months

  Automated Hybris and Magento ecommerce deployments using DevOps best practices. Wrote ansible playbooks and Chef inspec code to comply with the client's security requirements and audit trail.

  • Ansible

  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

  • e-commerce

  • Hybris

  • Magento

• WebOps Engineer, Equal Experts

  Apr, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 5 months

  Wrote idempotent puppet modules and deployments as well as python and ruby code to maintain HMRC's digital tax platform consisting of nearly one hundred containerised microservices. Managed datastores such as elasticsearch, mongodb, mysql, etc.

  • Consultancy: Government

  • Puppet

  • Ansible

  • Docker

  • microservices

  • elasticsearch

  • mongodb

  • python

  • ruby

• DevOps Engineer, Monitise

  Apr, 2014 - Jul, 20143 months

  Contracted to automate developer desktop builds with ansible, thus saving weeks of onboarding time for new hires.

  • Financial Services

  • Hashicorp Vagrant

  • Desktop automation

• Devops Engineer/Senior Systems Administrator, MedicAnimal Ltd.

  Mar, 2013 - Mar, 20141 year

  As the lead systems engineer, migrated the company's web infrastructure to the cloud (Amazon Web Services) and consolidated 4 brands under a new e-commerce platform (Hybris). We were able to reduce our release deployment time from 4-6 hours to as little as 20 minutes through anisble automation and increased service visibility through central logging and custom metrics in AWS CLoudwatch.

  • eCommerce

  • Hybris

  • AWS

  • CI/CD

  • Hybris

  • Apache web server

• Systems Administrator, Mind Candy

  Jul, 2012 - Mar, 20138 months

  As a DevOps engineer, was responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the systems infrastructure for the web-based kids' game Moshi Monsters.

  • Gaming

  • Python

  • EC2

  • Bash

  • Nginx

• Engineering Support System Administrator, NetApp

  Nov, 2011 - Jun, 20127 months

  Worked in NetApp's Global Dynamic Lab with over 2,200 racks of equipment operating on a 24x7 basis to support multiple timezones. Our phenomenal break/fix team was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing hardware, software, and infrastructure problems within 72 hours.

  • NetApp

  • Storage

  • Fibre

  • iSCSI

  • NFS

  • PXE

  • DataCentre

• Systems Administrator, Bandwidth.com

  May, 2011 - Nov, 20116 months

  As the system administrator, managed approximately 100 production Linux servers, including postGreSQL database servers. Developed monitoring system for a busy VOIP company providing the backbone for Skype and other VOIP providers.

  • Systems Administration

  • PostgreSQL

  • VOIP

  • Dell Servers

  • DataCentre

  • Linux

• Computer Project Manager, NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)

  May, 2005 - May, 20116 years

  Designed and relocated Center’s IT infrastructure (twice) consisting of bare metal Dell Servers, network switches, and iSCSI storage. Developed puppet scripts to setup and maintain virtual machines on Citrix XenServer hypervisor.

  • Systems Administration

  • PHP

  • Puppet

  • Shibboleth

  • iSCSI

  • HPC

• Systems Specialist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Apr, 2002 - Apr, 20053 years

  System Administrator (Windows and Netware) for large server farm. Managed 600+ Windows desktops with Novell Zenworks.

  • Netware

  • Netware Directory Services (eDIR)

  • Windows servers

  • Citrix

• IT Manager, AIC

  Nov, 2000 - Mar, 20021 year 4 months

  Relocated entire networking, telefony, and computing infrastructure between buildings over on Christmas holiday to avoid staff productivity loss. Managed various Windows and database servers, printing, and networking.

  • Systems Administration

  • Networking and Telefony

  • Citrix

  • Lotus Notes

• System Administrator, Duke University Medical Center

  Sep, 1999 - Nov, 20001 year 2 months

  Managed Netware servers, Unix Servers, Apple desktops and Windows NT desktops for the Medical Center Library. Zenworks desktop automation SME for the University.

  • Netware

  • eDIR

  • Unix

  • Zenworks

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