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After graduating from the University of Dundee I moved to London and joined Accenture. One of my first projects at Accenture was creating the infrastructure for a Web Platform running on the Amazon Cloud. I quickly became a massive fan of AWS and remember when AWS just consisted of a handful of services. During my remaining time at Accenture I continued working on AWS projects for different clients.I then joined Metapack where my first project involved migrating Metapack’s main application from a number of data centres to the AWS cloud. Metapack was a very exciting place to work being an API service uptime and platform performance was key. This helped me understand the importance of monitoring and alerting and how automation can vastly improve the stability of a platform. I was able to get more experienced using tools such as Ansible, VMware, Jenkins, ELK and got my first opportunity of managing a Platform team.After my time at Metapack I wanted a new challenge and joined Gousto as Lead Platform Engineer. Since joining Gousto I have built up a team of Platform Engineers who have been improving the deployment pipelines, monitoring and alerting capabilities and adding new technologies to the Gousto Platform.

Listed skills include Shell Scripting, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, System Administration, and 13 others.