Jack Stuart is a Senior Devops Engineer | Serverless Compute at Lloyds Banking Group. Colleagues describe him as "Jack is the embodiment of what investment in people can bring to business, when your faith and commitment in someone is matched by their growth mindset. Starting on an apprenticeship in a completely new arena can be seen as daunting, but Jack took this on admirably when he joined LBG. Never shy of a challenge, he has regularly demonstrated a positive attitude to finding ways to deliver value based outcomes either by finding a suitable technical solution or via candid conversations with stakeholders around their goals. Jack is capable of both managing his own workload as well as adding to a team. He has mentored other apprentices and graduates in their own learning pathway alongside his own technical workload and gained promotion to a senior engineer role helping deliver transformation projects critical to the bank, utilising new technologies in both the monitoring and cloud spaces." and "Jack is a valuable asset to any team. He has great interpersonal skills, giving him the ability to connect with customers and colleagues effectively and efficiently. These lasting relationships lead to positive outcomes through his strength in analysing business requirements and identifying engineering opportunities. Jack excels when applying a logical approach to designing & implementing IT solutions, and endeavours to bring others along the learning journey to further benefit colleagues and customers at any level. During our time working as peers, Jack has demonstrated an outstanding ability to self develop & foster skills in new technologies or practices. Alongside traditional IT systems, these attributes alongside exposure to hybrid cloud technologies has given Jack invaluable insights into applying technology to meet any business objectives. As our working environment was within the financial sector, security practices are at the core of each project he delivers. To close, Jack's working principles and personality have given me a new friend who I am sure to keep in contact with as our lives and careers advance!"