I have many years of engineering experience and am comfortable working at enterprise level in highly regulated environments, including prominent multinational financial institutions and asset managers. For most of my career, I have been responsible for mission-critical services.

I currently specialise in the containerisation of monolithic applications with Kubernetes and Helm, converting them to microservices architecture using the GitOps model on AWS and other public cloud platforms. After successful migration, I train and support the relevant application team. My expertise also includes proof of concept, assessing and advising on application design and database architecture, diagramming new proposed architectures, cloud migration, and using Terraform to deploy cloud services.

I am passionate about removing obstacles that impede engineers and developers' core responsibilities, such as deploying cloud infrastructure, security, automation and observability. I am excited about the shift towards proactive, event-driven architectures in place of reactive tracking and after-the-fact alerting. At Ortelius, the open-source project I serve on, we use a relational approach to observability, which enables the active identification of weak links within complex, distributed and dynamic systems and applications.

Harnessing and leveraging disruptive technologies to drive innovation and cloud-native environments requires a breaking down of siloed work cultures, a wide skill set, constant learning and keeping abreast of new technologies, and keeps you humble as you navigate intriguing and ever-changing arenas. I am an out-of-the-box thinker who likes to discover creative ways of achieving results through technology, a voracious learner, thrive under pressure, and I am excellent at lifting the spirits of the people I work with.