I'm a UK-based DevOps Engineer with over two years of professional experience across cloud infrastructure, deployment automation and platform operations. I've worked with teams at DRIFE, Carrier Abound and the University of Hertfordshire, combining day-to-day engineering work with practical research into secure delivery.
I focus on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD, with a growing interest in site reliability engineering, observability and automating operational work. I enjoy troubleshooting issues, understanding why systems fail and making the next deployment easier to operate.
| Area | Hands-on experience |
|---|---|
| Cloud and infrastructure | AWS infrastructure, networking, IAM, Terraform modules and environment configuration |
| Containers and orchestration | Docker, Kubernetes on EKS, Helm, workload configuration and troubleshooting |
| Delivery automation | Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines, build optimisation and deployment checks |
| Reliability and observability | CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, service logs, metrics and incident investigation |
| Security in CI/CD | SonarCloud, Snyk, Trivy, container hardening and automated vulnerability checks |
Explore the implementation and results
| Project | Status | Engineering focus |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-Environment AWS Infrastructure | Completed personal project | Terraform networking module reused across dev, staging and production, with EC2, S3 remote state, separate state keys and state locking. |
| Lean DevSecOps Pipeline | Completed personal project | GitHub Actions, SonarCloud, Snyk, Trivy and SARIF reporting for a Java application, evaluating security coverage against pipeline performance. |
| DevBoard | Training-project adaptation, in progress | Added Docker hardening, automated tests, GitHub Actions CI and Trivy scanning to a teaching application (React, Go, PostgreSQL). Non-root images; backend image reduced from 34 MB to 26 MB in my own testing. Kubernetes, AWS and GitOps are roadmap items, not yet built. |
| AWS VPC Peering Lab | Completed personal lab | Two AWS VPCs with public/private subnets, route tables, EC2 and security groups; ICMP connectivity validated across the peering connection. |
- DRIFE | Associate Cloud Developer (Nov 2022 – Jul 2023), DevOps Engineer (Jul 2023 – Jan 2024): Supported AWS EKS workloads, Jenkins pipelines, Kubernetes troubleshooting, reviewed infrastructure changes and release verification.
- Carrier Abound | DevOps Engineer (Mar – Aug 2024): Worked with Terraform across environments, CI/CD workflows, container builds and operational documentation.
- University of Hertfordshire | Research Assistant (Jul 2025 – Jul 2026): Built and evaluated automated DevSecOps checks for Java applications, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning and security reporting.
MSc Advanced Computer Science (Extended) | University of Hertfordshire, 2026
Cloud & IaC
Containers & delivery
Observability, security & scripting
I'm extending SkillPulse: GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, a fork of a training application, as a work in progress.
- Done on the branch: Go tests in CI, Trivy image scanning with enforced gates, Docker build caching, Kustomize overlays for dev, staging and production, monitoring configuration, and backup and health-check scripts.
- Planned: GitOps workflows and further reliability work.
Interested in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation or reliability engineering?
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