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• Senior DevOps Engineer, Tabled Technologies Limited

  Dec, 2025 - Feb, 20262 months

  Spearheaded the infrastructure remediation and security hardening required for ISO27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 compliance. Collaborated with external auditors (Cognisys) to identify gaps and implemented automated monitoring, logging, and network isolation across production and staging AWS environments.

  • Successfully prepared infrastructure for ISO27001 Stage 2 audit by remediating Internal Audit gaps A.8.31 and A.8.32.

  • Reduced Secrets Manager costs by approximately 83% by architecting JSON-bundled secret storage.

  • Fully automated security agent deployment (Trend Micro) via GitLab CI/CD and AWS Systems Manager.

  • Achieved 100% visibility for critical database and load balancer metrics through Infrastructure-as-Code monitoring.

  • Infrastructure Modernization: Migrated legacy NGINX EC2 reverse proxies to AWS ALBs with automated SSL.

  • Network Security: Executed full VPC network segregation, migrating Elastic Beanstalk applications to private subnets.

  • Security Hardening: Implemented AWS GuardDuty, automated SSH lockdown scripts, and enforced CloudTrail log integrity.

  • Serverless Migration: Refactored tasks into serverless AWS Lambda functions with EventBridge triggers.

• Senior Data Engineer, Giacom (Communications) Limited

  Apr, 2024 - Feb, 202510 months

  Responsible for designing and implementing data architecture solutions, building and maintaining data pipelines for a team delivering AWS-based data solutions.

  • Architected multi-account AWS Landing Zones and VPC segmentation using Terraform.

  • Developed automated CI/CD pipelines for data solutions using Glue and Lambda.

  • Mentored junior staff on DevSecOps best practices and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

  • Utilized Amazon Bedrock and Generative AI (Chat-GPT).

• Data Engineer, Mental Health Innovations UK

  May, 2023 - Jan, 20248 months

  Contract to develop an existing de-identification data pipeline with pyspark and NLP.

  • Developed an existing de-identification data pipeline with Pyspark and NLP.

  • Performance testing and enhancement with ARM64 AWS Graviton processors.

  • Implemented TDD with pytest, pylint, and OpenAI API.

  • Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and Dockerization with EMR Serverless.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Floyt Mobility

  Jan, 2023 - Jun, 20235 months

  Contract to migrate a rental car aggregation website into AWS.

  • Migrated rental car aggregation website into AWS using EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache.

  • Deployed Single Page Application (SPA) using CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and S3.

  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

  • PHP application configuration and deployment with GitLab, CodePipeline, and Docker.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, AstraZeneca

  Aug, 2022 - Dec, 20224 months

  Contract to deploy a Django application in the Beijing AWS region for DNA sequencing pipelines.

  • Deployed Django applications in the Beijing AWS region for DNA sequencing pipelines.

  • Automated 24+ specialized bioinformatics tools (BLAST, SAMTools) via Ansible.

  • Developed custom AWS Data Lake using Postgres (RDS), Lambda, and Step Functions.

  • Jenkins pipeline development and IaC with CloudFormation.

• Senior Developer, Admiral Pioneer (Veygo / NalahLife)

  Jun, 2022 - Oct, 20224 months

  Contract working on AWS serverless infrastructure for a temporary car insurance company (Veygo), and an intrapreneurial health insurance startup (NalahLife).

  • Built AWS serverless infrastructure using Chalice, SAM, and API Gateway.

  • Integrated AppFlow and Salesforce for business process automation.

  • Python web development with Django and API development.

  • Data engineering with Glue, Athena, and Pandas (Parquet).

• Senior Data Engineer, Nationale-Nederlanden Investment Partners

  Apr, 2021 - Mar, 202211 months

  Contract to work on a team producing back office tools for assessing and reporting on financial risk.

  • Built back-office tools for assessing and reporting financial risk in asset management.

  • Developed ETL workflows using AWS Glue and Athena for risk measurement.

  • Serverless development (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Cognito).

  • Python programming with Boto3, NumPy, and Pandas.

• Senior Python Developer, Chetwood Financial Ltd

  Sep, 2020 - Mar, 20216 months

  Contract to build a credit card application system with serverless technologies in AWS.

  • Architected a complex serverless journey management system for credit card applications.

  • Integrated 3rd party providers (Onfido, Experian, Equifax) for fraud and credit checks.

  • Python 3.8 programming with Boto3.

  • Building AWS serverless stacks (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway).

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Lenses.io

  Nov, 2019 - Sep, 202010 months

  Remote contract to build a SaaS cloud solution with Kubernetes, GoLang and Python.

  • Built a SaaS cloud solution across AWS, GCP, and Azure using Kubernetes and Go.

  • Designed SaaS AWS Factory and multi-tier SaaS solutions.

  • Kubernetes orchestration (EKS, GKE) and Helm charts.

  • Go programming for Lambda and API services.

• Team Lead, GFK Nurago

  Jul, 2017 - Oct, 20192 years 3 months

  Contract to support and migrate a Global suite of panellist data aggregation tracking tools to AWS.

  • Led the migration of global panellist data tracking tools to AWS.

  • Implemented Big Data pipelines using AirFlow, Kinesis, Firehose, and EMR.

  • Infrastructure orchestration with Terraform and CloudFormation.

  • Monitoring and operations using Grafana, Prometheus, and New Relic.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, OpenSignal

  Jan, 2017 - Jun, 20175 months

  Contract to manage Web applications and Big Data technologies for mobile insight.

  • Managed Spark/Mesos-based Big Data infrastructure.

  • Automated build and deployment for Django-based web applications.

  • AWS Architecture with CloudFormation, ECS, and RDS.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, De Persgroep Employment Services

  May, 2016 - Nov, 20166 months

  Contract to migrate an application from a private Cloud to Amazon Web Services.

  • Migrated applications from private cloud to AWS.

  • Conducted performance load testing and multi-account VPC architecture design.

  • Docker, Ansible, Terraform, and ELK stack implementation.

• Senior DevOps Engineer, Ministry of Justice

  Jul, 2015 - Dec, 20155 months

  Contract to help develop the Cloud services supporting a web application for the Office of the Public Guardian.

  • Developed cloud services for the Office of the Public Guardian.

  • Automated AWS with CloudFormation and Terraform.

  • SaltStack, Python, and Bash scripting.

• DevOps Engineer, ImmobilienScout24.de

  Apr, 2015 - May, 20151 month

  Consulting and development skills for their migration to Amazon Web Services.

  • Consulting for AWS migration focusing on IAM and security.

  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) with Python.

• DevOps Engineer, Agents Mutual (Onthemarket.com)

  Oct, 2014 - Dec, 20142 months

  Automate the deployment of web applications, Elasticsearch clusters, and Postgres databases to AWS.

  • Automated deployment of Elasticsearch clusters, log aggregation, and Postgres.

  • Implemented 'Simian Army' for infrastructure resilience testing.

  • AWS automation with CloudFormation and Puppet.

• DevOps Engineer, News UK

  Jan, 2013 - Jun, 20141 year 5 months

  Systems Engineer working with Digital Productions for migration and automated deployment to AWS.

  • Migrated high-traffic sites (The Times, The Sun) to AWS.

  • Developed a custom Ruby toolset for governance and cost analysis of 3000+ apps.

  • Akamai CDN configuration and management.

• Integration Engineer, The Financial Times

  Jan, 2012 - Dec, 201211 months

  Developing a bespoke cloud solution for automated deployment and configuration.

  • Developed a bespoke cloud solution for automated deployment to VMWare.

  • Puppet and Ruby development.

  • Maintenance of web stacks and network infrastructure.

• Senior Systems Administrator, Oxford University

  Nov, 2010 - Dec, 20111 year 1 month

  Senior UNIX and network administrator supporting 100+ Sun Solaris and virtualized Enterprise Linux servers.

  • Supported 100+ Sun Solaris and Linux servers for the Bodleian Library.

  • Automated server builds using Puppet.

  • VMWare/vSphere administration and Solaris support.

• Systems Administrator, Betgenius Limited

  Mar, 2008 - Nov, 20102 years 8 months

  Operations management and senior systems administration.

  • Monitoring and trending with Nagios and Cacti.

  • Automated Linux and Windows server/desktop builds.

  • Cisco network infrastructure configuration.

• IT Assistant, GoldCrest Post London

  Feb, 2007 - Feb, 20081 year

  IT support and infrastructure administration.

  • Windows infrastructure administration (Active Directory, Exchange).

  • Backups with Symantec Backup Exec and network design.

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