I am currently taking a break to reset and attend to important family stuff.Available for coffee or beer in London if any of my connections are in town and want to talk tech & hear about life in the greatest city in the world

Supported Sedex's multi-cloud, online platform and Continuous Integration / Build / Deployment pipelines, primarily on GCP and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), as well as AWS. - Imported existing Google Compute Cloud infrastructure into Terraform Cloud for improved infrastructure visibility, automation, and consistency. - Built Multi-Cloud connectivity w/ AWS Transit Gateway & GCP VPN Gateway - Led the successful migration of PostgreSQL database from a self-managed Kubernetes pod to Google Cloud SQL, for high availability, w/ automated backups, and increased security, and reduced operational overhead. - Reduced infrastructure costs by identifying under-utilised resources and consolidating legacy applications.

Took time off for a break. Worked part-time w/ local charities (H&F Food Bank, City Harvest, Nova New Opportunities). Studied and obsessed over the human microbiome, learnt how to bake sourdough bread, discovered YouTube yoga w/ Cassandra, and worked on my running.

Responsible for deploying, monitoring and managing production AWS infrastructure, including Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), MongoDB and Cassandra clusters. Configured performance monitoring and alerting w/ Prometheus. Wrote Helm charts for k8s deployments.Migrated self-hosted, EC2 Kubernetes cluster to EKS.

Responsible for supporting Continuous Delivery pipeline, w/ AWS ECS, Terraform & Jenkins, as well as the monitoring/alerting infrastructure for production environment w/ Sensu, Pingdom & AWS Cloudwatch Alarms.Resolved microservice scalability issues by using AWS ECS Auto Scaling & Fargate.Managed centralized log collection process w/ Cloudwatch Logs & Elasticsearch.

Responsible for code deployment, site monitoring and configuration management for Telefónica’s Video Platform API (OpenTok).- Wrote Terraform scripts to automate multi-region AWS provisioning- Using Docker Compose, developed easy, single-command deployment process of the multi-tiered, Tokbox back-end in a Developer/laptop environment - Designed and supported the infrastructure for Big Data pipeline w/ Logstash, Kafka & Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service w/ over 1 billion events per day. - Developed Chef deployment recipes for docker images in production - Introduced and implemented configuration management and code deployment w/ Chef - Implemented near real-time monitoring w/ Graphite/Graphene & Collectd & search w/ Flume/Elasticsearch - Improved overall service reliability, availability and performance. - Initiated and developed Jenkins build process to create production-ready images of server-side components- Worked closely w/ Operations, QA, Development & Analytics teams

Hands-on role managing the operations for large-scale production website (35m+ daily impressions), with one direct report. Implemented Configuration Management process w/ Chef. Wrote and maintained performance, deployment and monitoring tools. Responsible for the migration from managed hosting to AWS Cloud, resulting in better reliability & redundancy, at less cost. Scaled infrastructure to support 1 billion monthly impressions, and 100m monthly uniques. Managed 3rd party vendor relationships & capacity planning.

Production support for infrastructure and J2EE application platform in wholesale banking environment. WebLogic SME ("Subject Matter Expert") for the Internet Infrastructure Support team. Introscope performance management. WebSphere, OpenSSL, Apache administration. Wrote code deployment plans with Sun N1 SPS provisioning tool and Ant build scripts. - Wrote SSL certification expiration alerting and renewal tool with OpenSSL. - Developed Bash & Python scripts to automate checkout, deployment and monitoring of application code.

Configuration, integration and support of Vignette's Enterprise J2EE E-Business Network platform in multi-tiered, heterogeneous environments. Responsible for testing 3rd party compatibility, including WebSphere, WebLogic, SunONE and Tomcat application servers, DB2, Oracle and Sybase databases, all major LDAP/Directory Servers, 3 major search engine products, and Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Win2k operating systems. Wrote Ant and shell scripts to automate the build and deploy processes. - Provided support and consulting for Development, QA departments and was called on-site for advanced customer configurations.

Installed and supported server farms in London and New York, with Apache, and Windows Media/Real Networks media servers. Oracle database & Sun Enterprise E4500/Veritas Volume Manager support for in-house content management system. Bandwidth, security and filesystem monitoring at co-locations. - Scaled site infrastructure up from inception to Europe's busiest content site (over 5 million daily page views) Developed multi-language version of search engine (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian & English ) with Autonomy. - Designed and implemented log aggregation/reporting process using PERL - Supervised and mentored 24/7, in-house, technical support staff and network operations center.

Managed Online Learning Site for New Media Dept. of large, International children’s book publisher. Designed, installed and administered web server farm with Cisco PIX firewall, LocalDirector loadbalancer and 4500 series routers. Maintained company’s public-facing DNS servers.

Cisco router support, and Check Point s FireWall-1 administration. Novell NetWare support & installation. New York representative for Hearst s National LAN Standards Committee. - Developed company’s first Intranet with Netscape Enterprise Server and migrated company directory search from desktop to CGI, browser-based app.

Supported campus WAN & LAN Novell networks between 5 metropolitan locations.