DevOps VIP of the month
"Very experienced, hands-on Senior IT Professional with thirty year record of designing, managing and delivering innovative and successful project solutions, designs, systems and valuable intellectual property for high-profile public, private and NGO clients, with a reputation for high quality advice, thought leadership and problem solving.
Roles have included DevOps Strategy Architect, Systems Architect, Head of IT, Senior DevOps engineer, Strategic Consultant, Transformation Lead & Lead Developer, working for seven parliaments (including the UK House of Commons), eight UK Government departments (including BEIS, Home Office, MOD and Ministry of Justice), the Metropolitan Police, three Local Authorities, Tony Blair's private office, the Royal Household, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, HSBC, Lloyds Bank & two hi-tech startups. Extensive consulting experience from deep tech right up to enterprise strategy.
Comfortable at all organisational levels from the coding coalface to the Boardroom and beyond. Regular conference speaker and round-table participant. Well known figure on the London DevOps & related tech scenes.
Evangelist for automation, orchestration, event-driven systems and “everything as code”. Author of over 200 Ansible roles. Proponent of DevSecOps, zero-trust networking and loosely-coupled or event-driven system architectures. Advocate of ongoing hands-on learning to maintain currency with rapidly-changing tech.
Perpetually curious about new tools and techniques, to evaluate their potential uses. "
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