I'm a DevOps Engineer with a background in Software Engineering. My current role is at Neighbourly, where I improve developer workflows and maintain infrastructure to support a platform that delivers value to our communities.

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Cheltenham, UK

Experience

Neighbourly

DevOps Engineer • Dec 2022 - Present

At Neighbourly I streamline developer workflows and deployment processes, helping to deliver valuable features to customers and users sooner, which in turn allowed for more positive impact in our communities.

I frequently collaborate with team members; with my DevOps lead to prioritise and plan work, with developers to understand their working style and gather feedback for improvements, and with the operations team to carry out security and compliance work for retaining and acquiring customers.

During my training period I expanded upon my prior DevOps knowledge through independent learning and documenting the existing pipelines.

Highlights

• Introduced ephermeral testing environments, then iterated on the process to improve reliability, scalability and deployment speed
• Guided a migration of our repository to use trunk branching, which greatly simplified our deployment and QA processes
• Took ownership of the CI / CD, infrastructure, monitoring and security aspects for a migration to a new tech stack
• Added infrastructure monitoring, tightened access controls for sensitive resources, and reviewed networking, storage and security configurations to maintain ISO27001 compliance

Enable

Lead Engineer • Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

Senior Engineer • May 2021 - Jan 2022

Junior Engineer • *****Oct ***2018 - May 2021

Enable is where I trained as an Engineer, rapidly learning a multitude of technologies and concepts. Alongside building new features, I carried out regular support work with a focus on resolving issues quickly, reassuring customers and scheduling follow-up work and improvements. Additional responsibilities included mentoring new team members, leading technical workshops, and producing estimates of time required to build new and complex product features.

As the Lead Engineer for the DevOps team I focused our project resources on making development flow as smooth as possible and scaling our CI/CD processes.

Highlights

• Introduced Azure durable functions to our tech stack and used them to build a scalable and performant calculations system
• Seconded to the Customer Success team where I learned customer requirements, helped setup the product for new customers and built custom tools to help the team onboard customers faster
• Worked in a new, specialist DevOps Team where we focused on enabling Engineers to complete their work more efficiently and with fewer roadblocks by streamlining local development and CI / CD pipelines.
• Worked as part of the Environmental Team to introduce new environmental and sustainability policies

The University of Manchester

BSc Physics • ****2015 - 2018

My degree was where I discovered programming, initially as a scientific tool and then as a hobby and career path. This course helped build strong problem solving skills in both scientific and computing contexts.

Highlights

• Used python and MATLAB to perform data analysis and visualisation during lab work
• Built a desktop app with GUI in C++ to demonstrate the A* pathfinding algorithm. The app featured a map builder, file loading / saving and input validation. Take a look

Skills

Tech

• Web (HTML/CSS/JS/TS)
• C# / .NET
• Git
• Databases (SQL Server/Mongo/Redis)
• Messaging (RabbitMQ/Service Bus)
• Terraform
• Azure
• Azure DevOps
• PowerShell
• Windows / Unix
• Containerisation (Docker)

Concepts

• Accessibility & UX
• CI / CD
• Application security / OWASP
• Infrastructure security
• Networking
• Pricing & budgeting
• Automated & manual testing
• Internationalisation
• Mentoring & teaching
• Code reviews
• Project planning & estimation

Side projects

layowt

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I use Windows Terminal heavily in day to day work and couldn't find a tool to generate commands that launch the Terminal in a specific layout, so I built one in Svelte and Typescript.

gpx app

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My dive club were getting a new boat GPS and wanted to view the waypoints stored in the old unit. I built a simple Angular app to parse and display the contents of the unit's .gpx files.

Simon Yates' website

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My Dad takes great photos underwater, so I built a static site with Statiq to show them off.

bunting

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A tidy little Typescript package that leverages HTML Canvas to display colourful bunting (flags) on a site.

Personal life

When I'm not programming (or listening to programming podcasts) I enjoy exploring new places, rock climbing and scuba diving.