Platform Engineer

DevOps Engineer · Platform Engineer · SRE

An enthusiastic and motivated DevOps and Platform Engineer with a wealth of experience using many technologies across different platforms. Specialising in Linux systems, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and open-source solutions, consistently delivering results which support business efficiency. Experienced with AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and Infrastructure as Code. I have led disaster recovery efforts under pressure, delivered production AI backend services, and take pride in owning problems end to end. Very keen on automation.

Experience

J/NC DevOps Engineer
Nov 2022 – Present
Remote

Working with a diverse stack — Ansible, AWX, Terraform, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, Docker, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Python, AWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, IAM, WAF), GitLab and more. Maintaining and updating internal infrastructure, provisioning and managing customer environments via Infrastructure as Code.

Implemented AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) across the company's data centre infrastructure, enabling a full failover to EC2 during a major outage — recovering 75% of services within 48 hours and restoring business operations overnight.

S.L Systems Engineer
Aug – Nov 2022
Remote

AWS-focused role covering EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, VPCs and Load Balancers. Migrated the core Node.js/PHP application into Docker.

TS&S DevOps Engineer
Nov 2021 – Aug 2022
Remote

Managed GitLab infrastructure using Docker, Docker Compose and Docker Swarm, including Traefik configuration. Built and self-hosted internal tooling using Python (Flask), MariaDB, Redis and Azure DevOps, deployed to a self-managed, highly-available Proxmox cluster.

CL DevOps / Full Stack Developer
Mar 2020 – Nov 2021

Feature development, bug fixing, CI/CD pipelines and branching strategy on K2K. Stack: Laravel, Flask, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis and MariaDB. Cloud infrastructure across AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) and Azure DevOps. Data migrations, software releases and service reliability.

Earlier Roles

XQC Full Stack Developer / SRE
Mar – Nov 2019
OHR Full Stack Developer
Aug 2018 – Mar 2019
M/IC System Administrator
Sept 2012 – Apr 2017

Skills

DevOps

GitLab Azure DevOps Ansible AWX Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD Docker Helm GitOps CI/CD Infrastructure as Code

Development & Scripting

Python Flask FastAPI Bash Scripting Automation

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2 RDS ElastiCache IAM WAF S3 CloudFront Route 53 VPC Linux Rocky Linux Ubuntu Proxmox PostgreSQL MariaDB Redis Elastic Disaster Recovery

AI

llama.cpp Hugging Face Ollama RAG PGVector Firecrawl Crawl4AI Claude Claude Code ChatGPT LLM Prompt Engineering

Outside of Work

Homelab

Running a relatively large self-hosted infrastructure cluster. A personal sandbox for testing and deploying technologies before they hit production — Proxmox, Docker, self-hosted services and whatever's interesting that week.

Personal Dev

Personal projects and development outside of work — mostly homelab-adjacent, AI tooling, and automation. Built a personal AI assistant using llama.cpp and RAG. Daily driving Arch Linux.

Music

Always discovering new genres, artists and songs. Music is a constant — it genuinely helps with focus and getting into flow when working.

Family & Life

I have a young family and enjoy spending as much time with them as I can.