Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · United Kingdom

• OpenFaaS Ltd is a Software company focused on Cloud Native technology, open source innovation and developer-experience. We host half a dozen high-profile OSS projects like openfaas, arkade, k3sup & inlets, and provide commercial features and enterprise support.
• For a select few clients, we also offer consulting on Cloud Native technology, strategy for building enduring community and technical content that will grow your audience.
• Ask us about: Kubernetes, CI/CD, auto-scaling, FaaS, OSS / community, distributed systems and developer experience.
• OSS leadership for OpenFaaS & inlets:
• Overall technical & community leadership
• Defining and curating roadmap for OpenFaaS and inlets
• Engaging end-user community and case-studies
• Building a community-team of Core Contributors and GitHub members
• Community & media briefings, out-bound communications, partnerships and events
• Managing & training full-time staff @ OpenFaaS Ltd

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Peterborough, United Kingdom

• From Docker Inc's blog post on the Captains' program: "We receive many requests from the Docker community for help identifying experts who can answer questions on different forums like Stack Overflow, share their knowledge in blog posts and online tutorials, and present at industry events like conferences and meet-ups."
• Docker Captains work in a voluntary capacity as influencers and are nominated, then vetted by employees at Docker Inc. I was nominated for creating detailed learning materials and workshops for learning how to apply Docker containers to real problems.
• Through my participating in the Captains' program I built up a reputation as a trusted advisor and influencer on containers, Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies. I spoke at dozens of events, summits and meet-ups including a closing keynote at Dockercon 2017 to approx. 5000 people.
• Reason for leaving: joining competitor (VMware)

Apr 2008 – Feb 2018 · 9 yrs 10 mos · Peterborough

• Main focus: ADP's payroll and HR platform for US market supporting 500k clients at scale, delivered sub-systems, integrations, batch processing, and UI projects within tight time constraints.
• I am enthusiastic and driven to learn and improve. I work well in an Agile environment with XP/SCRUM/Kanban whether individually, supporting a team or placed within one.
• Highlights:
• Polyglot: Golang, JavaScript/Node.JS, C#/.NET, Python, Ruby
• Viewed as advocate for best practices, CI/Jenkins, unit and automated testing and SOLID principles.
• Expert with Docker, Linux, Bash, git and TFS
• Designing RESTful/event-based APIs
• Building in-house platform tooling with Golang for developer efficiencies
• Achievements:
• Worked in remote team to build award-winning Linux/Node.js portal for Accountants.
• Lead developer and Scrum Master with distributed and off-shore team of up to 8 people.
• Lead developer for WinForms and WCF application with TSQL backend to existing product.
• Travelled to USA to launch and support cost-saving tooling for ADP in 2014.
• Designed and ran internal training courses at ADP for Docker and Node.js resulting in taking on the role (externally) of Docker Captain and promotion to Principal Developer.
• Introduced TV Kiosk in office for live business and test metrics from internal systems using InfluxDB, Prometheus and Grafana. Created "Build as a Service" solution for rapid and modern CI for project teams.
• Additional: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, T-SQL, Jenkins, Java, Markdown, JQuery, Angular, Shell/bash, CSS, Bootstrap, Mongo, vagrant, bower, MVC, WebAPI, VMWare vSphere

Sep 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · London

• First position after graduation with digital design agency based in Farringdon, London.
• Company went through eXtreme Programming and Agile conversion with in-house coach. My first project was a Windows forms data-entry desktop application for an internal client in Germany with an access back-end.
• The main project after this was working on George Wimpey/Taylor Wimpey's customer-facing website. All development was driven through TDD with pairing and peer reviews using ASP.NET, MS T-SQL and CSS. We also used WaTin for UI/UAT testing.
• The London head office moved to Leamington Spa at which point I took the opportunity to apply to ADP/BMS.