Joel van Velden
Platform Engineering Team Lead at Motorway- Claim this Profile
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Olivier Butterbach
Joel and I have been working together for a year together at Motorway, he is a highly skilled and knowledgeable manager. Not only he’s helpful and friendly but he also goes beyond his position to maintain the team spirit and cohesion. The things I like the most about him were his transparency and honesty when some new critical projects were assigned to the team. Finally, I’ve seen him working his way through challenges and crises with ease, I feel proud to have worked under his guidance.
Steve Rabino
I worked with Joel on the Production Engineering team at Deliveroo. He was a valuable member of the team, taking on difficult challenges that others actively avoided. He became the team's go-to expert on areas such as in-memory data storage, and his work enabled Deliveroo to grow beyond its capabilities on critical parts of the system. He always had time to share his knowledge with those who needed help, but was also great at making sure the team's remit was sensibly scoped, and that this was communicated, to preserve our ability to provide the best service and solutions to the Tech Org.
Olivier Butterbach
Joel and I have been working together for a year together at Motorway, he is a highly skilled and knowledgeable manager. Not only he’s helpful and friendly but he also goes beyond his position to maintain the team spirit and cohesion. The things I like the most about him were his transparency and honesty when some new critical projects were assigned to the team. Finally, I’ve seen him working his way through challenges and crises with ease, I feel proud to have worked under his guidance.
Steve Rabino
I worked with Joel on the Production Engineering team at Deliveroo. He was a valuable member of the team, taking on difficult challenges that others actively avoided. He became the team's go-to expert on areas such as in-memory data storage, and his work enabled Deliveroo to grow beyond its capabilities on critical parts of the system. He always had time to share his knowledge with those who needed help, but was also great at making sure the team's remit was sensibly scoped, and that this was communicated, to preserve our ability to provide the best service and solutions to the Tech Org.
Olivier Butterbach
Joel and I have been working together for a year together at Motorway, he is a highly skilled and knowledgeable manager. Not only he’s helpful and friendly but he also goes beyond his position to maintain the team spirit and cohesion. The things I like the most about him were his transparency and honesty when some new critical projects were assigned to the team. Finally, I’ve seen him working his way through challenges and crises with ease, I feel proud to have worked under his guidance.
Steve Rabino
I worked with Joel on the Production Engineering team at Deliveroo. He was a valuable member of the team, taking on difficult challenges that others actively avoided. He became the team's go-to expert on areas such as in-memory data storage, and his work enabled Deliveroo to grow beyond its capabilities on critical parts of the system. He always had time to share his knowledge with those who needed help, but was also great at making sure the team's remit was sensibly scoped, and that this was communicated, to preserve our ability to provide the best service and solutions to the Tech Org.
Olivier Butterbach
Joel and I have been working together for a year together at Motorway, he is a highly skilled and knowledgeable manager. Not only he’s helpful and friendly but he also goes beyond his position to maintain the team spirit and cohesion. The things I like the most about him were his transparency and honesty when some new critical projects were assigned to the team. Finally, I’ve seen him working his way through challenges and crises with ease, I feel proud to have worked under his guidance.
Steve Rabino
I worked with Joel on the Production Engineering team at Deliveroo. He was a valuable member of the team, taking on difficult challenges that others actively avoided. He became the team's go-to expert on areas such as in-memory data storage, and his work enabled Deliveroo to grow beyond its capabilities on critical parts of the system. He always had time to share his knowledge with those who needed help, but was also great at making sure the team's remit was sensibly scoped, and that this was communicated, to preserve our ability to provide the best service and solutions to the Tech Org.
Experience
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Motorway
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United Kingdom
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Internet Publishing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Platform Engineering Team Lead
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Nov 2021 - Present
Manager of Platform Engineering team. Reporting to VP of Engineering. Since joining to establish the Platform Engineering function at Motorway, I've grown the team from 1 contractor to 5 permanent. Part way through a major re-platform from Heroku to AWS Fargate. My responsibilities include: - Defining the vision for Platform Infrastructure at Motorway and setting a product-led roadmap. - Owning delivery of our roadmap and project dependencies - Defining the interview… Show more Manager of Platform Engineering team. Reporting to VP of Engineering. Since joining to establish the Platform Engineering function at Motorway, I've grown the team from 1 contractor to 5 permanent. Part way through a major re-platform from Heroku to AWS Fargate. My responsibilities include: - Defining the vision for Platform Infrastructure at Motorway and setting a product-led roadmap. - Owning delivery of our roadmap and project dependencies - Defining the interview process and hiring for Platform Engineers into the team - Inputting into budgets and forecasting costs - Project delivery - Coaching and mentoring of reports, regular 1:1s - Writing business cases to justify new teams / re-prioritisation of work / new vendor and budgets / build in-house. Projects include: - Introduced tracing using Datadog APM - Set the direction for developing our bespoke release manager system - Moved logging from ELK to Datadog Logs to provider a better developer experience at lower cost. - Providing the best terraform experience possible using Spacelift AWS / ECS / Fargate / Terraform / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB / GitHub Actions / Datadog / Spacelift Show less Manager of Platform Engineering team. Reporting to VP of Engineering. Since joining to establish the Platform Engineering function at Motorway, I've grown the team from 1 contractor to 5 permanent. Part way through a major re-platform from Heroku to AWS Fargate. My responsibilities include: - Defining the vision for Platform Infrastructure at Motorway and setting a product-led roadmap. - Owning delivery of our roadmap and project dependencies - Defining the interview… Show more Manager of Platform Engineering team. Reporting to VP of Engineering. Since joining to establish the Platform Engineering function at Motorway, I've grown the team from 1 contractor to 5 permanent. Part way through a major re-platform from Heroku to AWS Fargate. My responsibilities include: - Defining the vision for Platform Infrastructure at Motorway and setting a product-led roadmap. - Owning delivery of our roadmap and project dependencies - Defining the interview process and hiring for Platform Engineers into the team - Inputting into budgets and forecasting costs - Project delivery - Coaching and mentoring of reports, regular 1:1s - Writing business cases to justify new teams / re-prioritisation of work / new vendor and budgets / build in-house. Projects include: - Introduced tracing using Datadog APM - Set the direction for developing our bespoke release manager system - Moved logging from ELK to Datadog Logs to provider a better developer experience at lower cost. - Providing the best terraform experience possible using Spacelift AWS / ECS / Fargate / Terraform / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB / GitHub Actions / Datadog / Spacelift Show less
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