AI startup employed me to navigate a difficult challenge in deciding how best to meet requirements to be multi cloud. The Platform team needed to become high performing in order to reach their goals.Responsibilities include:Managing up to 9 including platform, backend and security engineers; 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, mentoring and all other aspects of delivery and people managementCreating direction and alignment, defining platform roadmap and processes for deliveryCollaborating with other parts of the business including product, data science and salesSuccesses include:Creating a platform roadmap that inspired the team and met varied stakeholders demandsCreating and running a PoC to deploy Adarga’s apps onto their second hyper cloud: OracleBringing the remote platform team physically together to run workshops and come to decisions collaboratively and based on shared understandingOpening up communications with all other parts of the businessCreating a platform user panel to collaborate with the platform team; the first output was a shared communications planRunning interviews to identify the critical platform user journeysInspiring underperforming team members to become highly engagedCreating meaningful personal development plans Technologies:Terraform, EKS, EC2, ESO, Kong, Github actions, ArgoCD, ALB etc

Cloud Native Consultancy employed me to drive improvements to their engineering team. While managing engineers and creating processes I also led a client project where we migrated an air gapped on premise infrastructure to AWS. I have thoroughly enjoyed being a key player in shaping the future of the open source projects that Container Solutions incubates. I have also been able to foster collaborative effort between departments to deliver engineering success on client projects; where my explorative people centric management style has paid dividends.Responsibilities include:Managing up to 14 including 5 team leads; 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, mentoring and all other aspects of delivery and people managementLeading Labs - an incubator for open source projects contributing to the cloud native communityLeading customer projects and creating holistic architectures that led to successful outcomesCreating direction and alignment, defining engineering OKRs and processes for deliveryRecruitment and onboardingSuccesses include:Leading a project to a 9/10 rating from the client sponsor (the highest rating ever received)Managing the entire leadership team of our largest and most successful customer project in a highly regulated environmentFacilitating architecture workshops with multiple customer teams for air gapped environments that had to be able to handle bespoke database technologies5 team members being promoted to Cloud Native Engineering LeadsFocusing Open Source efforts on External Secrets Operator which I then lead to 3000 GitHub stars and sandbox status at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Java Operator SDK being given to the CNCFCreating the engagement model defining customer project operationIntroducing group coaching across the engineering team; enabling real connection and supportIntroducing Stay interviews to the entire organisation12 month emerging leadership programmePresenting at conferences including KCD

e-commerce platform employed me to improve their ROI in technology.Spearheaded the restructuring of a 9-member DevOps team, successfully integrating remote team members to enhance operational efficiency.Reduced Cloud spend by more than 50% while improving security and velocityEstablished a DataOps team, implementing a data warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) tools to improve data-driven decision-making across the business.Launched a Front-End Proof-of-Concept (PoC) team, leading the migration to a React-based architecture to improve user experience and performance.Achieved rapid and sustainable delivery timelines, contributing to a reduction in operational costs.Enhanced the cadence of the entire tech team, leading to significant improvements in website security and performance metrics.Fostered cross-team collaboration, ensuring that each team member took ownership of their projects while adhering to best practices in project management.Technologies: Redshift, Apache Airflow, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, Cloudflare, Splunk, Elastic Search, Springboot, EC2, ECS, Security Hub, Docker, MySQL, Oracle etc

digital information provider employed me to manage their website estate. I led a devops transformation for tech teams across the enterprise and employing a variety of BI tools enabling the business to make better use of their data. Continually optimised costs so that the hosting spend remained static ($200k pm) during 2017 despite a 50% increase in the size of the website estate. I ensured that projects were delivered on time while security, performance, reliability and return on investment were all improved. I built up a motivated internal team of 9 remote working individuals and excellent relationships with a varied group of external vendors. We built an Enterprise level AWS estate and migrated 100+ websites from 18 hosting vendors to this solution. We implemented a devops approach inspiring tech teams across the business to follow the golden paths we had created and improve development velocity and security.