Head Of Platform Engineering

• May 2022 - Present

Continuous Delivery Foundation Board Member

• May 2022 - Present

Elected Board Member to the Continuous Delivery Foundation as Committer/Contributor Representative. Elected Board Member to the Continuous Delivery Foundation as Committer/Contributor Representative.

CNCF Ambassador

• Oct 2021 - Present

• Promote cloud-native projects and technology • Educate a local community on the CNCF mission • Contribute to CNCF projects • Speak at conferences • Contribute to CNCF projects • Write blogs for the CNCF blog, and Kubernetes blog • Promote cloud-native projects and technology • Educate a local community on the CNCF mission • Contribute to CNCF projects • Speak at conferences • Contribute to CNCF projects • Write blogs for the CNCF blog, and Kubernetes blog

Head of Cloud Engineering

• Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

Cloud Native Consultant

• Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

Technical Advisory to Executive leadership team – Major Retail Services Client: • Built coaching and mentoring framework for technical upskilling • Mentored team leads to implement the framework for the teams • Introduced Agile practices to accelerate deployment frequency and decrease lead time by 50% • Implemented shared responsibility model with development and DevOps teams having 25% common KPI’s • Built CI/CD framework and established best practices • Implemented AWS Well architected framework • Architected and implemented Application Integration layer on top of the Data lake • Provided Advanced analytics on data to enable stakeholders to make informed business decisions. Technologies: AWS, Data Lake, GoLang, Python, Terraform Show less

Engineering Manager - Cloud Innovation

• Apr 2019 - Aug 2020

Currently managing the Cloud Innovation team, which consists of 7 people in a modern DevOps environment, where we are working with AWS, and Azure, and currently going through a Kubernetes journey. My role is around 50% technical and 50% management, which changes from time to time depending on the deliverables. • Build high performing Agile development scrum teams• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams• Recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching and performance management• Lead implementation & evangelism of DevOps practices• Provide technical guidance & career development to team members• Develop roadmap by collaborating with team, product management, software architect, and security• Research, pilot and standardize emerging ground breaking technologies• Scripting experience - Go and Python• Decision Making and Problem solving• Work with internal and external teams to collaborate on infrastructure development• Architecting for continuous integration and deployment, and continuous monitoring• Define, track, and report delivery commitments, to all stakeholders• Participate in code review cycle• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects and tasks with overlapping deliverable dates• An understanding of Git and the importance of version control systems • Excellent Documentation skills• Proficient at design and maintenance of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment workflows• Testing & software development• Outstanding communication and presentation skills• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities• Experience in building Big Data oriented solutions• Experience in high growth, rapidly scaling environments• Promote CI/CD and automation processes across all teams• Experience in ITIL processes - Build, Change, Release and Configuration ManagementCurrent toolset we are using: Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, GitLab, Terraform, Kubernetes Show less

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

• Jun 2017 - Apr 2019

I am currently working in the cloud services team for Avoka in Manly, which was acquired by Temenos. Where all of our Cloud solutions are in AWS.The team is split into two squads.The run squad, which is responsible for handling requests and the service desk, and the engineering squad, which is solely focused on automating as much as we can to reduce the work for the run squad and come up with new innovative solutions.I'm working in the Engineering squad, my primary focus is on Automation and Data.Responsibilities:Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.• Managing customers’ requests and applications’ support• Maintaining cloud based environment using AWS• AWS cloud infrastructure automation using CloudFormation, Terraform• Database administration experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, etc.)• Tools/Technology: Linux, Windows, AWS EC2, AWS CLI, AWS S3,AWS VPC,AWS ROUTE 53,IAM,AMI, RDS, CloudFormation Show less

Software Engineer

• Jan 2016 - May 2017

I was working on the restaurant engineering team where we were responsible for the Development of the website, mobile app, and internal tools. - Database Administration - Application Development - DevOps (Git,Bamboo Server) - Application Support - Looking after the Cloud (Microsoft Azure) - Looking after the Dimmi website - Content Management System Development - Salesforce Marketing Cloud Development - Generating SQL reports - Looking after Web Servers I was working on the restaurant engineering team where we were responsible for the Development of the website, mobile app, and internal tools. - Database Administration - Application Development - DevOps (Git,Bamboo Server) - Application Support - Looking after the Cloud (Microsoft Azure) - Looking after the Dimmi website - Content Management System Development - Salesforce Marketing Cloud Development - Generating SQL reports - Looking after Web Servers

BI Developer

• Mar 2015 - Jan 2016

• Engaging with existing customers to understand ongoing business requirements for Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation. • End to end technical development of Business Intelligence solutions for customers, including requirements gathering, data cleansing and manipulation, data modelling, creating data sets and BI reporting and visualisation using a range of technologies including Yellowfin, Tableau, SSRS, SSIS and SQL Server. • Scoping new requirements and understanding customer data sets. • Creation of Business Intelligence reports and dashboards for customers using Yellowfin BI. • Continuusly worked across three separate customers in the FMCG and Distribution sectors to build finance and sales reporting functions. Utilising Yellowfin to drill down into areas such as distribution and sales data. Show less

Engineer

• Jan 2010 - Mar 2015

• Assist subsea and marine engineers with software development • Provide IT and communication support for Vessel. • Maintain a 5 week on, 5 weeks off roster • Assisted on the drill floor when required • Assist with Administration and office tasks • Data Analysis • Assist subsea and marine engineers with software development • Provide IT and communication support for Vessel. • Maintain a 5 week on, 5 weeks off roster • Assisted on the drill floor when required • Assist with Administration and office tasks • Data Analysis