Experience

• - Internally wrote Terraform code for managing AWS Accounts and SSO and making it self-service - Created a POC with OPA Gatekeeper to help enforce best practices on Kubernetes - Created a POC with Github Actions to replace a legacy Continuous Integration System



• Part of the Internal facing DX (Developer Experience) team - Contribution to the Open Source AWS Terraform Provider - Providing support to Tech teams to get up and running with reusable Terraform modules - Helping with the interviews for the Cazoo apprenticeship scheme - Co-designing a workshop for apprentices around the Serverless Framework and EventBridge - Writing standards and designing AWS tagging standards in Cazoo Tech - Building a POC for a new centralised logging solution and co-ordinating engagement from stakeholders - Building AWS Infrastructure to send logs from all applications to Datadog and deploying it using AWS StackSets - Co-running the Observability Bootcamp for new joiners at Cazoo - Helping Software Engineers with ad-hoc support requests - Improving the shift-left culture by adopting Checkov to detect security flaws early in the development lifecycle - Designing engagement and feedback with end-users and co-running a workshop to build a new monitoring solution for all teams Show less



• Tech stack: AWS, Terraform, Serverless Framework, CircleCI, JavaScript, Datadog, NewRelic - Working across 7 difference products including Sainsburys homepage, Active Kids and Lettuce Know/CSAT (Sole/Lead Cloud Engineer for the last 6 months) - Building infrastructure and deploying API's in AWS using Terraform and the Serverless framework - Problem-solving cloud-specific issues with Software engineers - Building pipelines that are fully CI/CD that deploy to production when feature branches are merged into master - Creating standalone Terraform modules to set standards across multiple products - Designing and improving the standards and architecture patterns across multiple products - Helping out with the interview process for new Cloud Engineers Show less



• Teck stack: Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Gitlab CI, Cloudflare, Python, Go (Terratest), Ansible, Packer, PagerDuty, Grafana, Graphite, Papertrail, Jupyter Notebooks Sole cloud engineer at eve, working between teams and modernising the cloud infrastructure. Roles include: - Used infrastructure as code (AWS Cloudformation) to provision services for the checkout on AWS Fargate. The infrastructure is highly scalable and removes the job of managing servers. Example configuration for the controller service - https://gist.github.com/nayoa/edc956557991ebbcd366fa13dd1434a4 - Provisioning and managing the Jupyter notebooks on Google Cloud Platform for the Data Analytics team. - Implemented Pagerduty to improve alerting for out of hours. - Creating reusable Terraform modules and tested with Terratest - Built a scalable Magento backend using Ansible and Terraform - Built a hardened AMI using the DevSec Hardening Framework, Packer and Ansible - https://github.com/dev-sec - Managing an SFTP server internally and with external warehouses - Created a Python script that connects to an SFTP server and copies CSV files to an S3 bucket of choice. Once complete, the script archives the CSV files copied into an archive directory. The script is run daily using a Gitlab CI cronjob. - https://github.com/nayoa/sftp-s3 - Spun up a small site called sitespeed that runs speed tests against the most visited pages on evesleep.co.uk and evematelas.fr. It then outputs to a Grafana dashboard to see how the speed improved over time. - Migrated the design library from Bitbucket to GitlabCI which involved migrating the pipeline to Gitlab. As part of this task, I created a development environment to help improve developer and user experience. - Migrated the evesleep wordpress blog from https://blog.evesleep.co.uk to https://evesleep.co.uk/blog to improve SEO. For this, I migrated the QA and Production load balancers from Classic to Application. I was then able to use redirect rules Show less



• Tech stack: Openshift Container Platform, AWS, Ansible, Kitchen Test, Sysdig, AppDynamics, Jenkins, Vault, Terraform, Splunk, Scalyr, Github pages, Molecule, InSpec, Packer, Fluentd, Sbt The role included working in a squad of Scala developers to deploy microservices to infrastructure in AWS. In addition, it involved spinning up and configuring Jenkins for CI/CD and Vault for secrets management. A big part of the role was making existing terraform components reusable to allow other squads to deploy with ease. All infrastructure as code was TDD using Kitchen CI, Inspec and Molecule to ensure when a change is made, it does not effect the infrastructure. Show less



• Tech stack: CircleCI, Kubernetes, Kops, AWS, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Fluentd, Terraform, Pingdom, Pagerduty, Grafana, CloudFormation The role included supporting developers with deployments that were hosted on an infrastructure made up of AWS CloudFormation and SaltStack. To replace the legacy infrastructure, I was part of a digital transformation project to create a Platform as a Service using Kubernetes. The project included creating infrastructure as code using Terraform to create AWS resources and modules. I created a baseline CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI for developers to deploy their applications into their Kubernetes namespace. I used Prometheus and AlertManager to create Prometheus rules on pods and nginx-ingress and configured to alert in Pagerduty and Slack. In addition, I created Kubernetes Manifests and Helm charts to deploy applications to the cluster. As part of this, I’ve created documentation for developers to help write the Manifests and responded to any queries and issues with an excellent manner. I’ve used Fluentd to forward logs to AWS Elasticsearch and deployed an elasticsearch-curator cron job that removed logs older than 30 days. I’ve created tests on CircleCI to ensure code passes a YAML Lint and Terraform format test. This prevents pushing code that will fail. I’ve set up Pingdom checks in Terraform to alert when an application is down. As part of the out of hours support team, I’ve responded to these alerts and rectified the problem. Additionally, I’ve supported developers to fix failed Jenkins jobs to ensure code is deployed in their environment. Show less



• — Graduate Scheme — My duties included writing low level test scripts, attending daily stand ups, reviewing XML messages, flow control during System Integration Testing and raising defects on defect management sites such as Jira. - Problem Solving: During testing a showstopper error may occur that will block the team from further testing. In order to rectify the problem, I would assess the situation to see if I could solve the problem with existing knowledge. If I was unaware of how to solve the problem or not sure I would contact the relevant developers and team leads to escalate the problem. - Technical Skills: Creating queries in PostgreSQL to retrieve timestamps from the database. In addition, I have sent transactions from an internal system and controlled the flow of the transaction by using commands in Linux Terminal. The XML messages are then saved and reviewed to ensure that all mandatory fields are present. Show less



• My duties included cashing in the float, serving customers on the tills at an efficient pace, cleaning the bar and cashing out the float. In August 2014, I was promoted as a Team Leader. This involved me counting stock on the bar, briefings with staff, training and ensuring the shift runs smoothly. Key Skills: - Communication: When a customer orders food and drink, I communicate with my colleagues to get the order to the customer quicker. I communicate with the customer effectively to ensure they gain an experience that will make them want to visit the arena again. - Leadership: Leading a team of 1-3 till staff, ensuring they are kept up to date with important information about the stock and event. It is also incredibly important as a team leader to ensure they are doing the job properly and any questions they may have, I answer. Show less





• • Designing and editing the college’s Virtual Learning Environment, making it more specific and consistent to the users. • Using Adobe Photoshop to design and edit headers and logos for the VLE • Presentations to current students at college about my experience at university and giving them relevant advice. • Basic Office Jobs completed, such as filing of assignments and scanning specific documents for tutors/lecturers.



• My duties included ensuring guests have a great day, following complex health & safety procedures, checking the ride restraints and putting the guests safety first. Key Skills: - Perseverance and Motivation: A normal day at the resort would consist of working 14 hours with minimum breaks. The role may involve working in hot temperatures with very little shade. This shows that I was able to adapt to working in poor conditions but still able to give the guests the great experience they paid for. - Teamwork: Working in a team of 3-5, using specific hand signals to ensure each ride is sent safely. If a member of the team does not perform the correct signals at the right time, it may cause serious incidents. Show less



• My duties included handling and counting large amounts of money from previous day floats and inputting the data into a MS Excel Spreadsheet. Key Skills: - Numeracy: Doing a balance to ensure no money has been stolen; this would require me to add up large numbers. Banking large quantities of money, double-checking notes. - Teamwork: Working in a small team of 4-6 people every day shows that I am able to adapt to a smaller team. We get the job completed quicker by working together and if anyone is stuck or has trouble using machinery, we help each other out. Show less



• My duties included maintaining the shop floor to a good standard, inventory, putting items out, till work, refunds and teaching new members of staff how to use the till equipment. Key Skills: - Customer Service: First associate to be awarded a ‘WOW’ award, voted by customer’s on excellent customer service. This included me answering the phone to customers, dealing with complaints and refunds. - Teamwork: Working in a large team of around 20-30 people. We’d all work at a faster pace on tills during peak hours to ensure we all leave on time. I helped out team members on all tills if they had any difficulties. If on the shop floor, we’d help tidy each other’s departments at the end of the day. Show less