Kennek provides SaaS solutions to enable lenders, investors and other alternative lending actors to scale operations, enhance risk management and identify new funding sources without the traditional burdens

• Design of CI/CD utilising GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes management
• Developer tooling

Building a blockchain technology platform to allow peer to peer digital cash asset to settle tokenised transations.

• Security Auditing
• Management of Kubernetes clusters
• Design of automated PKI system

Lead Engineer specialising in cloud based technologies, focused on architecting a secure cloud first environment, building a DevOps and a DevSecOps team,

• Design and implementation of secure cloud native architecture
• Development of internal security tooling
• Implementation of automated systems providing GitOps capabilities for Kubernetes and AWS
• Management of DevOps and DevSecOps teams
• Cost Optimisation
• Architecting Spring based microservices
• Development of custom resources for kubernetes
• Design of a Proxy based solution allowing controlled egress from AWS

Engagement to work with their data teams to build a data lake, focusing on the infrastructure and security that is required to provide secure role-based access to potentially Personally identifiable information

• Upgrade of existing terraform to latest version and syntax
• Design and develop secure cloud policies, conforming principals of least priviledge
• Creation of Kubernetes clusters with role-based access to resources
• Development of GitOps based deployments
• Design of a Proxy based solution allowing controlled egress from AWS

Sole Site Reliability Engineer focused on technical debt and increasing engineering velocity.

• Migration of existing cloud-based infrastructure to a more secure architecture.
• ElasticSearch upgrade from legacy EOL version to latest stable release with minimal downtime.
• Design a Kubernetes based deployment pipeline to increase development velocity.

Foundation of a DevOps organisation operating within an embedded model, driving continuous integration and delivery utilising tools such as GitLab and Kubernetes.

• Management of all DevOps engineers
• Engagement strategy for embedding engineers into other development teams

Foundation of an international engineering team focusing on implementing reliability and chaos principles, supporting engineering teams developing over 200 microservices through objective led engagements and embedding of engineering resources across multiple teams.

• Laid the foundation for a geographically disperse engineering function
• Creation of Product maturity program to ensure that product entering production are secure and resiliant

Implementing DevOps and SRE principles throughout the global organisation, re-architecture of their Software as a Service platforms to ensure high levels of security and scalability for future growth, development of internal tooling to increase the development velocity and abstraction of the Crownpeak cloud platforms, leadership of a global engineering team delivering against key indicators to drive revenue growth.

• Cloud Architecture
• Creation of internal and external solutions to exceed customer expectations
• Practice area / Team leadership
• Design and Implementation of IaaS, Containerisation and Configuration Management
• Development of GitOps based deployment systems
• Design and Development of ChatOps systems

Provide support to internal and external customers, supporting a variety of solutions including but not limited to, LAMP, LNMP and Cloud Computing.

• Cloud Architecture
• Mentorship of junior engineers
• Develop automation for Rackers to use on customer servers
• Develop internal tooling to facilitate internal requirements
• Development of automated systems to reduce toil