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• Developed and trialing a tool for developers to build and deploy a SaaS platform locally via ArgoCD.
• Key stakeholder in release of the company's new flagship SaaS platform, which was deployed via a tool I designed.
• Designed, built, and provided a single standard way for any software developer or team to deploy any product of various types, such as Kubernetes pods, database schema changes, frontend UI, and API documentation.

• Designed, developed, and rolled out a quality gate validation tool to assert business defined quality standards on all developer produced artifacts.
• Built a system to track inter service dependency mapping of compatible versions and availability within each deployment environment.
• Expanded the tool to perform service deployments into all environments, if validation of all quality gates and dependencies are met.
• Provided mentoring to members with the SRE-Developer Experience team.

York, England, United Kingdom

• Took part and led multiple incident responses for cloud and self managed datacentre.
• Designed the multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform's disaster recovery process, and auomated it to three button pushes.
• Enhanced the companies annual disaster recovery test, of scaling up many thousands of servers to replicate a datacentre down from several hours to a couple in a single command.

York, United Kingdom

• Maintain and develop configuration management of a multi-datacentre chef managed platform.
• Develop and support automated tooling to support teams to release to production.
• Support Kubernetes environments on multiple cloud platforms.

York, United Kingdom

• Administer and maintain an AWS cluster hosting a multi site hybrid Splunk infrastructure.
• Write and deploy chef cookbooks to monitor production services.
• Manage New Relic monitoring, and develop custom synthetic monitoring services.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Designed and developed an automatic earthquake alert system for the rapid response of satellite data acquisition requests and event modelling.
• Designed and help develop the automated processing pipeline of massive data sets on a cluster computing system, including a mix of tape archived and fast disk access data.
• Designed and developed a web-application to visualize and interact with the products of the automated data processing. The system is designed to handle a data sets of >20 trillion data points (>100 TB), enabling a user.
• Developed various web-maps to visualise the research group’s progress and products, which have been presented at international conferences and on BBC news.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Ingres database management (in SQL) of medical data, with tables containing tens of millions of rows.
• User interface development with C++ builder providing tools to perform data validation and insertion of new data sets.
• Android development of medical form questionnaire, relaying sensitive data over unreliable networks in a secure and robust way.

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Lead classes for a wide range of abilities in undergraduate astronomy, physics, and engineering courses.
• Helped organize and run an astronomy school camp for 16-17 year old students.

• Collaborated with multinational teams in system design.
• Document management and version control, with proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physics

Activities and Societies: Rock climbing, TrampingThesis: Gravitational microlensing, an automated high-performance modelling system. •.

Master Of Physics, Physics With Astrophysics

Activities and Societies: Underwater Hockey (3 years committee member, qualified coach and referee), Badminton (2 years committee.