I lead and manage a team of Platform Engineers responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and optimizing an Internal Development Platform built on AWS Fargate, improving platform stability, performance, and reliability.Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and align platform development efforts, resulting in increased developer productivity and faster feature delivery.Mentored and guided team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and… Show more I lead and manage a team of Platform Engineers responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and optimizing an Internal Development Platform built on AWS Fargate, improving platform stability, performance, and reliability.Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and align platform development efforts, resulting in increased developer productivity and faster feature delivery.Mentored and guided team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration, contributing to a 20% improvement in team performance.Oversaw the design and implementation of platform features, services, and integrations, ensuring alignment with business needs and industry best practices.Monitored platform performance, identified areas for improvement, and drove the implementation of best practices, optimizing platform efficiency and scalability.Ensured platform security and compliance with industry regulations, resulting in a 100% compliance rate and zero security incidents.Staying current with industry trends and advancements in platform engineering and cloud technologies and introducing new tools and processes led to a 15% reduction in platform maintenance costs. Show less

Working on building a fully operational Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that will be tailored to meet the diverse needs of developers, streamlining workflows and optimizing resource management for enhanced productivity.

I am the Programme Manager at 100 Black Men of London (100 BMOL), a leading charitable organization focused on improving the community and empowering youth. Our motto, “What They See Is What They’ll Be,” reflects our commitment to impactful programs for the youth and their families.**Role Objective:**As Programmes Manager, I support the Programmes team in developing priorities, building relationships, and advocating for 100 BMOL. My work is vital in enhancing our reputation and… Show more I am the Programme Manager at 100 Black Men of London (100 BMOL), a leading charitable organization focused on improving the community and empowering youth. Our motto, “What They See Is What They’ll Be,” reflects our commitment to impactful programs for the youth and their families.**Role Objective:**As Programmes Manager, I support the Programmes team in developing priorities, building relationships, and advocating for 100 BMOL. My work is vital in enhancing our reputation and impact within the community.**Key Responsibilities:**- Developing and implementing programme strategies aligned with our vision.- Overseeing the planning and execution of impactful programs.- Fostering relationships with community partners.- Creating evidence-based policies and processes.- Contributing to fundraising and communications.- Preparing monthly programme reports for senior management.- Managing budgets and ensuring financial accountability. Show less

Specialising in:* DevOps,* Automation,* Continuous Integration,* Continuous Delivery,* Cloud Computing,* Microservices,* Containerization,* Infrastructure as Code,* Lean Software Development,* Site Reliability Engineering (SRE),* Agile Methodologies.

* Responsible for streamlining the software development and deployment process for my organisation.* My primary focus is implementing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimising system performance.* I work closely with development teams to ensure that code is deployed securely and reliably. I also collaborate with operations teams to monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.* I deeply understand infrastructure as… Show more * Responsible for streamlining the software development and deployment process for my organisation.* My primary focus is implementing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimising system performance.* I work closely with development teams to ensure that code is deployed securely and reliably. I also collaborate with operations teams to monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.* I deeply understand infrastructure as code (IaC) and implement best practices to ensure that our cloud-based systems are scalable, cost-effective, and highly available.As a DevOps Consultant, I play a critical role in ensuring that software is delivered quickly, reliably, and with high quality to end-users.* I am constantly seeking to improve our software development and deployment processes and looking for new tools, process improvements, and technologies that can help us achieve our goals.* Ultimately, my goal is to significantly contribute to the organisation's success by delivering software that meets the needs of our customers and stakeholders. Show less

Agile Digital Transformation Project, Migrating Applications from Legacy Datacenter to AWS.DevOps & Agile CoachingTechnologies used:Cloudformation, Lambda, Chef, Redhat Identity Manager, Jenkins, CloudReach Sceptre

Creation of Kubernetes Platform to host Cross-Government Reputation Services for use in Fraud Detection and ProtectionTechnologies in use:AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS, Lambda, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK, Docker, CodeCommit, Helm, CodeDeploy, AWS Fargate

Worked on refactoring the Klarna Fraud Prevention Platform Continuous Delivery Pipeline to be made simpler and more robust, multiple issues were experienced due to the complexity and series of manual steps that were required, these manual steps were eliminated and the complex pieces of the pipeline were replaced with simpler and easier to intuit code.Technologies in use:Amazon Web ServicesJenkins Pipeline DSLAnsibleTerraformAWS CloudFormationPythonBash

Working on the build out of a new Kubernetes platform on top of Microsoft Azure to handle Financial PaymentsTechnologies in use:KubernetesJenkinsBashGroovyYaml

Worked as an SRE responsible for the evolution and reliability of the My O2 mobile application and web portal.Ansible, AWS, Jenkins, Lambda, Chef Inspec, Groovy, Python, Bash, Github

Working as a Web Operations Engineer on the Portal Rehoming Team for the Multi Digital Tax Platform, our job is to migrate legacy applications to newer cloud-native services utilising Microservice Architectures, Platform as a Service and Amazon technologies, OpenStack and VMware CloudTechnologies used is Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Scala, Ruby, Python, ActiveMQ, Nexus, Jenkins, Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS

Worked as a DevOps Subject Matter Expert in the Financial Intelligence Unit, provide support and tooling for Agile Development to support developers working in the Financial Crime and Fraud related area.Technologies used: Salt, Serverspec, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket/Stash, Crowd, Python, RHEL

Worked on the Government PaaS Team to build a UK Government-wide Platform as a Service platform based on Cloud Foundry on top of Amazon AWS. The purpose of this project is to build a single platform to rapidly deploy applications in Government without the overhead of each department having to deploy the same sort of components over and over again instead these components would be presented as services that can be accessed via a service broker e.g. ElasticSearch, Postgres, etc.* Worked on… Show more Worked on the Government PaaS Team to build a UK Government-wide Platform as a Service platform based on Cloud Foundry on top of Amazon AWS. The purpose of this project is to build a single platform to rapidly deploy applications in Government without the overhead of each department having to deploy the same sort of components over and over again instead these components would be presented as services that can be accessed via a service broker e.g. ElasticSearch, Postgres, etc.* Worked on Jenkins CI configuration that was used to Continuously deploy Cloud Foundry infrastructure for PaaS environment (https://github.com/alphagov/multicloud-deploy) using Jenkins job DSL and Ansible* Worked on Tsuru (https://tsuru.io/) proof of concept (https://github.com/alphagov/tsuru-ansible) using Ansible and Terraform, AWS, Azure and GCP* Worked on Cloud foundry trial (https://github.com/alphagov/cf-terraform) & production (https://github.com/alphagov/paas-cf/) with Diego* Used Concourse CI (http://concourse.ci/) for CI of Cloud Foundry builds. Show less

Associate consultant. Specialising in DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Agile, Kanban, Build Automation and Release.

Worked on Visas online service a part of the Governments Digital Transformation Initiative.

Working on the Telefónica Dynamic Insights Smart Steps Big Data Platform as the Primary DevOps contact directly embedded within an Agile development team. This product is completely hosted within Amazon's Web Services environment and my primary role was the creation and maintenance of multiple environments (Development, Continuous Integration, Test Integration, UAT and Production). Primary technologies used: Amazon Cloudformation, Puppet, RSpec, Vagrant, Packer, Tomcat, HAProxy, Amazon ELB… Show more Working on the Telefónica Dynamic Insights Smart Steps Big Data Platform as the Primary DevOps contact directly embedded within an Agile development team. This product is completely hosted within Amazon's Web Services environment and my primary role was the creation and maintenance of multiple environments (Development, Continuous Integration, Test Integration, UAT and Production). Primary technologies used: Amazon Cloudformation, Puppet, RSpec, Vagrant, Packer, Tomcat, HAProxy, Amazon ELB, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Graphite, Sensu, Collectd, Jenkins, Gradle, Logstash, Kibana, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, The Grinder (Java Load Testing Tool), Git and MongoDB. Show less

Working as a Senior Devops Consultant for the Sky Identity Agile Team to complete the following projects:* Chief Puppeteer - writing puppet modules for Apache, BIND9, MySQL, Mcollective, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Logstash, Jetty, Memcached and Elasticsearch,* RPM Building for multiple custom packages for Centos 5 and 6,* RabbitMQ implementation for mcollective and log filtering, * Foreman Automated Provisioning System with dynamic DNS integration implementation,* Documentation and… Show more Working as a Senior Devops Consultant for the Sky Identity Agile Team to complete the following projects:* Chief Puppeteer - writing puppet modules for Apache, BIND9, MySQL, Mcollective, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Logstash, Jetty, Memcached and Elasticsearch,* RPM Building for multiple custom packages for Centos 5 and 6,* RabbitMQ implementation for mcollective and log filtering, * Foreman Automated Provisioning System with dynamic DNS integration implementation,* Documentation and Presentations of new and existing infrastructure. Show less

• Worked in the Web Operation Team within an Agile development environment utilizing Scrum and Kanban;• Automated deployment of multiple complex software types including:- IBM Process Server, Cognos Business Intelligence and Information Server DataStage;- Tomcat, Glassfish and IBM WebSphere Application Server;- Oracle and DB2 Database Software- CA SiteMinder SSO secured Apache Reverse Proxies with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite;• Implemented a system for automatically… Show more • Worked in the Web Operation Team within an Agile development environment utilizing Scrum and Kanban;• Automated deployment of multiple complex software types including:- IBM Process Server, Cognos Business Intelligence and Information Server DataStage;- Tomcat, Glassfish and IBM WebSphere Application Server;- Oracle and DB2 Database Software- CA SiteMinder SSO secured Apache Reverse Proxies with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite;• Implemented a system for automatically building projects in Development, QA, Integration, Staging and Production environments utilizing Cobbler, mcollective, puppet, jruby and jython;• Automated RPM build and generation.• RPM Building of Java artefacts using Maven• Implemented a system for automatically generating deployable virtual appliances utilizing the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for deployment to multiple VMware and VirtualBox environments. Show less

Linux and VMware Consultant working in an agile development environment to build a SaaS based product for Healthcare Providers.

Direct and support team of IT professionals with responsibility for maintaining global ICT infrastructure and driving continuous quality improvements for company specialising in delivering and supporting solutions-based and configurable media applications and systems. Oversee key programs and projects and integrate processes and procedures with a focus on attaining immediate and short-term business objectives in accordance with ITIL. Manage IT budget, as well as oversee the daily operations… Show more Direct and support team of IT professionals with responsibility for maintaining global ICT infrastructure and driving continuous quality improvements for company specialising in delivering and supporting solutions-based and configurable media applications and systems. Oversee key programs and projects and integrate processes and procedures with a focus on attaining immediate and short-term business objectives in accordance with ITIL. Manage IT budget, as well as oversee the daily operations management of EMEA sites, including facilities management. Source, negotiate, and maintain competitive vendor contracts. Manage company assets by proactively conducting regular audits and verifying IT equipment compliance. Show less

Managed UNIX infrastructure with focus on maintaining security and availability within environment requiring 24/7 uptime. Performed a range of project management functions to support the on-time and quality completion of IT projects. Managed and negotiated vendor relationships.

Contract Linux consultant to various companies such as:Guildhall School of MusicFolgate Partnership LimitedSouthern Glasshouse Produce LimitedSmithson Mason GroupARC InternationalContracted to deliver expert-level consulting to clients spanning various industries that included: insurance products/services firm, flower nursery, and Europe's leading conservatory. Engagements involved performance tuning, upgrading, automation, and integration of diskless thin… Show more Contract Linux consultant to various companies such as:Guildhall School of MusicFolgate Partnership LimitedSouthern Glasshouse Produce LimitedSmithson Mason GroupARC InternationalContracted to deliver expert-level consulting to clients spanning various industries that included: insurance products/services firm, flower nursery, and Europe's leading conservatory. Engagements involved performance tuning, upgrading, automation, and integration of diskless thin client-base workstations using Linux infrastructure within Windows environments, as well as in conjunction with Citrix Metaframe. Worked closely with Development and QA teams to support successful deploying of systems in accordance to specifications and implementation of solutions in a scalable and standardized manner. Provided support to maintain and improve performance, reliability, and security levels. Show less

Supported network infrastructure architecture and implementation for company specialising in providing a range of IT solutions and services for clients. Delivered 3rd line support to assist the organisation’s ASP Housing arm. Oversaw a team of 5 Developers.

Served as the lead design authority providing network infrastructure, security, and thin client (Citrix) solutions to support Internet-based applications for company that designs and markets electronic trading software to financial sector. Provided leadership and guidance to support 2 Infrastructure Specialists.

Assisted multi-national telecommunications equipment manufacturer by delivering operations and technical management to support Windows NT and UNIX environment with 1200+ servers. Supervised and guided global team of 25 responsible for administering remote 24x7 support coverage for 70+ sites across different time zones. Designed tools, processes, and procedures to support remote systems.

Served in technical leadership role supporting the world’s largest broadcasting corporation in overseeing network infrastructure and systems. Direct management responsibility for the News & Current Affairs network infrastructure (Windows NT, Linux, Sun and Novell) and core broadcasting systems (3 sites). Provided mentorship and support to drive performance of team that included 3 Support Analysts.

Supported growth for IT services and infrastructure systems provider by assisting clients in troubleshooting and resolving Network Operating Systems issues.