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Experienced technical lead and systems developer with a decade of operations experience. Skilled in Python and Golang development and certified in both AWS & GCP public clouds. Experience from low levels of the stack from the data centre all the way to the cloud. Always keen to learn new things and lover of telemetry, graphs & observability. Loves working in services teams who own their products and services.

Experience & Skills

  • Developing, deploying and operating microservices in golang/python using REST & gRPC
  • Extensive experience with AWS & GCP cloud native services
  • Integrating APM/Observability tooling into existing services to help improve observability and monitoring of existing microservices
  • Extensive use of hashicorp tooling. Terraform, Nomad, Packer, Consul & Vault
  • Container management on different platforms including nomad & kubernetes
  • Management of Linux Infrastructure using Chef & Ansible at scale of 2500+ nodes

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Employment

  • Oracle
    • Principal Site Reliability Engineer Dec 2022 - Present
  • Smartsheet
    • Senior Software Development Engineer II Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
    • Senior Software Development Engineer I July 2020 - Jan 2022
  • Cloudreach
    • Operations Engineering Lead Jun 2018 – July 2020
    • Operations Engineer Fed 2018 - Jun 2018
  • DeltaDNA
    • Systems Administrator Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
  • Oracle
    • Cloud Systems Administrator May 2015 – Jan 2016
  • Edinburgh University
    • HPC Systems Administrator Feb 2014 – Apr 2015
  • Miller Group
    • Systems Administrator Jan 2013 – Feb 2014

Education

  • Edinburgh Napier
    • Computer Systems and Networks 2:1