I am passionate about inspiring people to envision and craft innovative solutions, tackle intricate challenges, and deliver value in a pragmatic and sustainable manner, leveraging not only technology, but people, process and frameworks too. My 15 years of experience as a technologist in the fields of software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps and SRE, and working in various roles such as support, consultant, team member and lead have equipped me with a broad skill set and much wisdom, enabling me to empower teams and individuals to reach their highest potential while guiding them towards a clear vision and strategy. I believe succeeding together is important and am driven to create collaborative, progressive and healthy working environments that help teams enhance team efficiency, focus and alignment towards the big-picture goals of the organisation. KEY SKILLS - Designing and implementing robust solutions - Streamlining CICD and toil reduction - Setting clear OKRs - Specifying and instrumenting SLIs, SLOs and SLO alerting - Leveraging data and research for decisioning - Ways of Working optimisation - Operational uplift - Harnessing skills and talent within teams - Big picture thinking - Advocating good engineering practices - Knowledge sharing, mentoring and learning from others - Effective to the point communication - Breaking down complexity into easily comprehensible concepts - Relationship management - Grasping unfamiliar topics quickly - Grit and perseverance TECHNOLOGY AND FRAMEWORKS Terraform . Ansible . Jenkins . Octopus Deploy . Azure DevOps . EKS . ECS . AWS . Azure . Python . C# . Go . Bash . Makefile . Kubernetes . k6 . Docker . Linux . Clair . Artifactory . Vault . IAM . Agile Software Development . SCRUM . Kanban . Jira . ServiceNow . ITSM . PagerDuty . Prometheus . Grafana . Azure Monitor . OKR framework . GitHub . Git . Confluence . Shell scripting . Moq . NUnit . Checkmarx . Oracel . MS SQL . Postgres . Selenium . Markdown OTHER INTERESTS Professional interests: - OKR goal setting - DORA's State of DevOps research - InnerSource Commons - C4 model - Team Topologies - Storytelling structures - Technical Writing - ChatGPT - Clean Code - Low Code, No Code - Data Engineering - Graph data - Mutation testing - Chaos engineering - Performance testing - Observability - Work-life balance - RFCs, Design Docs and ADRs Personal interests: - Formula 1, GoKarting, driving stick shift - Coffee, Spicy food - Obstacle courses, boxing, snowboarding - Music and drumming - Adventure and travel - Friends and family