Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Remote

• I joined the DBaaS team developing and maturing the Cassandra (AstraDB) cloud product. In this I championed elegant integration with Kubernetes to realize the full value of a cloud native deployment.

Jan 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• First EMEA hire of the Cloud Infra / SRE function
• Designed, built and scaled a Kubernetes-as-a-service platform from zero to thousands of clusters across all major cloud providers
• GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Go

May 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Hired and managed 2 teams of ~15 engineers working on backend cloud applications for our energy and telecom products.

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Golang, Kubernetes, GCP & AWS, Microservices, GRPC

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Designing and developing scalable, elegant RESTful APIs
• Building and optimising distributed, real-time data processing systems with Java and Node
• Managing infrastructure hosted on AWS using Puppet
• Rapid prototyping of customer-facing services and products
• Integrating with and operating Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, Postgres and ElasticSearch