A Principal Cloud Systems Developer with over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. I have a strong background in developing and maintaining cloud-native applications, and I am passionate about cloud computing, DevOps culture and platform engineering. I am a strong advocate for automation and quality engineering practices, and as a technical leader, supporting and mentoring teams so that we all grow together.
Azure
Google Cloud
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Bash
Go
Python
Kubernetes
Nix
Cue
Cilium
As a Principal Cloud Systems Engineer, I was responsible for leading the design and implementation of cloud-native applications for our clients. I was also responsible for mentoring and supporting the development team, ensuring that we delivered high-quality solutions that met our clients' requirements.
In my role at TFL, I was responsible for supporting the cloud infrastructure and automation of the Azure platform. I was responsible for building CI/CD pipelines and process to build IaC environments using Azure DevOps, cost analysis and cloud resource consolidation using cloud governance and compliance tooling, and developed Azure native automation tools using DSC/Runbooks/Managed Service Catalogues.
At Rackspace, I was a member of the Windows Systems Administration team in the enterprise support team. I was responsible for providing technical support for Windows Server typically hosted on VMware infrastructure. I also provided support for public cloud hosted on Openstack platform, health monitoring with SCOM and New Relic, and developed reusable Powershell functions for large scale execution across Rackspace managed services.
A self-service platform for creating and lifecycling GCP landing zones. In my role I put together an initial design and proposal for a platform that helps teams to easily provision a GCP environment so that they can focus on delivering value to the organisation. I also led the development of the platform, which was built using a combination of cloud-native technologies delivered by GCP, Github Actions and Terraform.
A well architected pattern for deploying and managing AKS clusters using GitOps. In my role I was responsible for the initial technical pre-sales and discovery which led to the design and implementation of a Kubernetes platform on Azure with a view to shifting the organisation to a GitOps model. Additional features included canary deployments, automated testing and ephemeral environments to support UAT and QA.
A Kubernetes platform for shared services and applications. In my role I was responsible for planning and implementing a Kubernetes platform on Azure to host shared services and required to support a new SaaS product from the development team. These features included Vault, Consul, Keycloak, Jenkins and Artifactory. A large degree of focus was placed on standardisation and automation to ensure the platform was easy to operate and maintain. To achieve this I designed a number of deployment patterns to facilitate workload identity, automated DNS and global load balancing.
A proof of concept for a service mesh on Kubernetes. In my role I played a supporting role during the technical pre-sales and discovery phase to produce supporting documentation and a high-level design for a highly technical client. After the completion of the discovery phase I was responsible for the delivery of the chosen service mesh, Istio, and the development of a deployment pattern that could be used to evaluate the viability of Istio as a global load balancing solution.
Public Sector
Lead Developer, Cloud Architect
7 People
January 2023 - December 2023
Cloud Functions
Cloud Run
Google Cloud
GitHub Actions
GKE
Go
Pub/Sub
Terraform
Azure
Docker
Flux
GitLab
Helm
Kustomize
Artifactory
Consul
Ingress Nginx
Jenkins
Keycloak
Vault
Inspec
Istio