About

I’ve spent 10 years in the software industry, including 5+ years in dedicated DevOps roles, building scalable infrastructure, leading platform engineering teams, and helping organisations achieve security certifications. Based in London, I currently work as a DevOps Manager.

Experience

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1. DevOps Manager

   Oct 2022 - Present

   Lumanity

   • Provisioned and deployed new cloud-native applications across Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare within days, maintaining high availability at scale
   • Mentored a skilled team of Platform and Systems Engineers, driving technical growth and delivery excellence
   • Delivered Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code across multi-cloud environments, enabling repeatable zero-downtime deployments
   • Hardened CI/CD pipelines with automated security gates and vulnerability remediation workflows, eliminating all high-severity findings before customer release
   • Led the organisation to ISO 27001 certification, coordinating application security testing, standardising code review practices, and enforcing unit testing and static code analysis
   • Drove ISO 42001 AI governance initiatives, establishing responsible AI deployment frameworks and policies across the organisation
   • Leveraged Azure AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock to design and deliver AI-integrated platform solutions
2. DevOps Engineer

   May 2020 - Oct 2022

   Innovative Edge

   • Migrated applications from on-premises to cloud-native infrastructure, improving availability from under 95% to over 99% and significantly reducing operational overhead
   • Built CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub with integrated SonarQube analysis, reducing issue discovery and turnaround time from months to minutes
   • Deployed containerised, scalable microservice workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
   • Secured the identity perimeter with Azure Entra ID, implementing MFA with conditional access, SAML SSO, Self-Service Password Reset, and Privileged Identity Management
   • Led cross-business adoption of Agile working practices, improving delivery cadence and team alignment
3. DevOps Engineer

   Aug 2018 - May 2020

   IRIS Software Group

   • Joined a Release Engineering team building CI/CD tooling that supported software delivery across multiple product lines
   • Automated business processes and complex deployments using PowerShell and Ansible, reducing human error frequency and enabling consistent releases
   • Applied Git, Azure DevOps, and unit testing best practices throughout the development lifecycle, raising code quality standards across the team
   • Developed C# solutions using MVVM, WPF, and object-oriented design, bridging developer and operations responsibilities
   • Worked in an Agile methodology, collaborating with scrum master and stakeholders to ensure smooth processes and releases
4. Analyst Programmer

   Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

   Gentrack UK

   • Collaborated closely with client stakeholders in an on-site delivery model, building strong cross-functional communication skills across technical and business teams
   • Contributed across the full software development lifecycle from design through implementation and testing, establishing a rigorous foundation in delivery quality
   • Enforced code review, automated testing, and version control standards, developing early quality engineering habits
   • Worked to Agile Scrum methodologies to improve turnaround time of client issues and enhancements

Education

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1. BSc (Hons) in Mathematics & Physics

   2013 - 2016

   Royal Holloway, University of London

   Foundation in analytical thinking and problem-solving that I continue to apply to the complex architecture and optimisation challenges I face in my day-to-day.

Core Competencies

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Leadership & Management

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Cloud & Infrastructure

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Development & Automation

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Certifications & Compliance

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Technical Proficiencies

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