HUMAN Security | Senior Operations Engineer

Platform Modernization: Spearheaded the transition from proprietary, bespoke tooling to a standardized, open-source GitOps ecosystem using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.

Developer Empowerment: Engineered standardized GitLab repository frameworks and in-house Helm charts to automate the path from code to production, enabling "self-service" for application teams.

Infrastructure as Code: Managed multi-regional Kubernetes clusters and Terraform modules across AWS and GCP, ensuring high availability and consistent security postures.

Economic Impact: Leveraged a BSc in Mathematics to integrate FinOps principles into the operations lifecycle, reducing cloud overhead through automated resource rightsizing.

Golang, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, AWS(SQS, S3, SNS, IAM, EC2, ELB), Etcd, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD

Worked in an agile development team to build a new internal web app used to scale lead generation marketing campaigns across digital channels worldwide. As the project grew, we separated out the application from a monolithic architecture into a suite of microservices which are now processing over 3 million event messages a day.

I developed across the whole stack using PHP, Laravel, React/Redux, Go, MySQL, GraphQL, Docker, & AWS to become a versatile developer

Contributed to future business architectural designs by deconstructing a monolith into a service-oriented architecture using AWS SNS and SQS for system to system messaging

Improved reliability of legacy systems by splitting out code into object oriented structures, improving testing & dockerizing systems

Automated manual processes and contributed to reducing overspend in the company by 98% by integrating external APIs and SDKs including Facebook, Google & Linkedin

Helped break down complex business problems within the company with non-technical stakeholders, identifying where automation by technology could be used

Actively led stand-ups, retrospectives and contributed to architecture meetings to improve processes

Used tools such as JIRA, CircleCI, Jenkins & DataDog

Part of a development team tasked with building and delivering a Greenfield Project in an Agile consultancy team. Web application built in a suite of integrated microservices using ReactJs and Redux on the front end and Java8 Spring Boot on the back end that consumes Kafka streams and persists data to a Postgres database.

Working with the team to develop the vision of the consultancy, with regular feedback and suggestions to shape the future and learn about the progress of the business.