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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, enabling over 10,000 deployments in a year.

• 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 to select any point on the map and get a full history of its values in time with sub-second responses.• 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.