I'm a DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of cloud experience, and 25 years of infrastructure engineering and Linux system administration. I've been freelancing for 12 years and have provided engineering work and consultancy services for two dozen customers during that time. I help clients with a wide range of needs, including the following:
- DevOps
- IaC
- CI/CD
- Automation
- Site reliability & monitoring
- Security
- Cloud & bare-metal
- Containers & virtualisation
- Scaling, redundancy & DR
- Infrastructure migrations
- Cost management
Recent achievements for customers include:
- Built cloud infrastructure platform for new e-commerce site, managed via IaC with full auto-scaling and redundancy, significantly reducing administration overhead, performance problems and downtime.
- Built application for on-the-fly image conversion to older formats, ensuring that customers with legacy browsers can view site correctly.
- Successfully mitigated DoS/DDoS attacks and hardened servers/network to resolve ongoing security problems.
- Delivered cloud-based contact centre solution for large secure public sector customer, to handle routine calls with automated flows enabling call centre agents to have significantly more time for handling atypical and serious issues.
- Built automated data management system integrated with configuration management and version control, allowing timely delivery of up-to-date commodity data to internal users and customers.
- Built extensive backup management application, making it simpler for users to manage backups in a more intuitive and robust manner.
- Resolved problems implementing encryption for cloud messaging cluster allowing completion of product, and developed IaC solution to automatically build containers and manage cluster.
- Built CI/CD solution necessary for development team to build, test and deliver code efficiently.
- Delivered log querying and reporting solution to development team, allowing them to effectively visualise and filter log output for faster issue resolution.
- Built cloud platform with auto-scaling and container deployment for successful delivery to customer, a large buyer reviews platform.