Jun 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Kubernetes at scale.

Dec 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Responsible for the European SRE group. First European hire, hired a team of 11, including tech leads from the ground up. The team's stack revolves around GoLang and Kubernetes across all major cloud providers focusing on providing an IaaS layer to Confluent cloud.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr

Mar 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

May 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · The City, England

Sep 2013 – Apr 2014 · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Devops engineer responsible for the Linux infrastructure and automation focusing on Puppet, Mcollective and Fabric. We use a Jenkins/Nexus setup along with Selenium for CI. The team is also responsible for the big data infrastructure utilising Cassandra, CDH Hadoop, Redis.

Dec 2011 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Richmond

• ● I was responsible for designing and extending the Gumtree.com infrastructure; this involved all aspects of the site such as Application support, Networking and Load balancing, Database administration, monitoring and automation.
• ● The position was a Devops role utilizing Puppet and Mcollective with Python and Ruby as the main languages. The application support involved Java and Perl applications.
• ● An additional aspect of the role was working with the developer and QA team to deliver infrastructure and automation tools such as Jenkins, Nexus, and Selenium grid.
• ● I took part in developer team standups and sprints to provide with advice on systems automation and overall site architecture.

Feb 2011 – Dec 2011 · 10 mos

• ● I was responsible for the deployment and configuration of our customers production and development environments.
• ● As a level 1 I was the first point of contact for all technical matters. That included but was not limited to: initial configuration, advice, implementation, troubleshooting, emergencies and maintenances.

Apr 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ● I was responsible for the deployment and configuration of our customers production and development environments.
• ● As a level 1 I was the first point of contact for all technical matters. That included but was not limited to: initial configuration, advice, implementation, troubleshooting, emergencies and maintenances.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

• I have worked as a data centre operations technician across four different data centres in Rackspace, gaining experience in several areas of server deployment and troubleshooting, as well as network device deployment.
• As a level 2 my responsibilities involved advanced deployment and configuration projects as well as the training of newer technicians on our data centre infrastructure and procedures.

Jun 2010 – Mar 2011 · 9 mos

Aug 2004 – Aug 2004 · 0 mo

• I worked at the Press and media centre NOC between the 13th and 29th of august 2004, where I was responsible for level 1 and 2 technical support as part of a multinational team. It was a unique experience in that it involved both technical troubleshooting as well as negotiating an optimal solution with reporting crews from around the world (often with a rudimentary understanding of English) while working in a time critical environment.