Experience on

Gitlab

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Team lead for the core commercial offering of GitLab Dedicated.

Lead development of Hosted Runners to Limited Availability that secured multiple customer multi-year commitments of $500k+ in ARR
Developed blueprints for Zero Downtime Deployment and Disaster Recovery
Served as part of a technical escalation for critical GitLab Dedicated incidents
Key expert in a working group to overhaul SRE hiring across the company
Lead analysis and implemented fixes to support the largest GitLab Dedicated tenant’s critical scaling issues
Earned 2 discretionary bonuses and an engineering award for best blueprint

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Fully remote SRE working on building the new GitLab dedicated offering.

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0100

Fully remote SRE working on platform initiatives and supporting key applications for enterprise customers.

Implemented POC Kubernetes based machine learning platform (kubeflow)
Coded (Go) a custom Kubernetes operator to create databases and set database permissions for users in Google Cloud SQL
Created automation to aggregate NAT IPs for allowlisting across our GCP projects
Collaboratively planned go-live for services/onboarding portal for ML2
Advised on high level purchases of software and services

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Fully remote SRE embedded with the Long Term Analytics (“big data”) team collaborating with game teams and other data teams.

Wrote a tool in Go to streamline argo-cd configuration across teams
Implemented cert-manager and external-dns for my embedded team
Built out a custom Atlantis (terraform automation) instance in GKE to allow reviews of infra changes via PR

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Fully remote position working with a globally distributed SRE team supporting Magic Leap’s platforms and websites.

Created a pipeline to manage our GCP projects and user permissions as code using Terraform - managing over 417 projects
Created a pipeline to manage our GCP Shared VPC provisioning 53 subnets in different projects for on premises connectivity
Maintained 20+ terraform provider forks and hundreds of terraform modules in Go and Terraform
A primary architect of a Kubernetes Platform as a Service (PaaS) running internal and major external workloads scaling to accommodate product launches and hundreds of thousands of requests
Ran Knative in production as the primary feature of the PaaS providing automatic scaling to 0, istio service mesh/routing and also automatic provisioning of sql databases for services using operator-sdk and CRDs

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Part of an SRE team supporting Apple Maps.

Primarily supported an internal tool for managing bare metal servers and a workflow engine both built in Ruby on Rails
Monitored site reliability and performance while building monitoring tools to automate and document this work
Worked with developers to support new features, releases and consult on architecture
Scaled infrastructure and respond to production incidents owning production for the services/sites

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Part of remote team working for internal clients on projects across the company’s ecommerce site and backend systems.

Integrated a tax API for all shopping transactions
Created an automated deployment system using github to push updates to the static site
Built a Disaster Recovery environment in AWS for our data center based servers
Modernized tooling and infrastructure
Rebuilt from scratch failed production servers transitioning from hand built servers to repeatable ansible playbooks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Developer filling primarily Java roles within the Federal Services division for major government clients.

Arrived with 0 knowledge of spring and java by the time I left I had built a prototype front end redesign and was teaching lunch and learns on spring/java best practices