CV

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Profile

DevSecOps professional with a background in SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Security. Experienced in developing secure and resilient systems at scale, implementing preventative security measures and responsive threat mitigation strategies across enterprise environments. I take part in conferences and tech meetups to build professional connections and stay current with AWS, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and emerging security challenges.

Roles and Positions

Certifications

Technologies

Projects

Risk Ledger

• Refined the disaster recovery process and refactored IaC to allow recovering to a diffing AWS account and different region.

• Rolled out Wiz Cloud, Defend, and Code across the cloud and SCM providers.

• Upgraded all PostgreSQL databases running close to end-of-life versions to the latest stable version.

Zapier (Security)

• Led technical remediation for the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) program across 100+ AWS accounts, for Zapier to be listed on the AWS Marketplace and qualify for Co-selling.

• Developed and maintained secure base Docker images for Python, Node, and CI with automated patching workflows, reducing critical and high CVEs from 30k to 100s across 15k pods.

• Refactored IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) for SSO and RBAC across 100+ AWS accounts, reducing execution time from 40+ minutes to minutes.

• Identified and removed legacy infrastructure through security assessments, achieving $500,000 annual cost savings.

• Rolled out Wiz CSPM/CNAPP across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and all Kubernetes clusters for unified security visibility and compliance.

• Led the infrastructure migration of the crypto-kernel system (processing up to 80k requests/second for OAuth tokens/API keys) from shared EC2 to a dedicated AWS account and Kubernetes clusters, completing a successful handover to service owners.

Zapier (SRE)

• Extracted customer-facing webhook endpoints from the monolith into a dedicated service, managing traffic migration up to 20k requests/second using canary deployment techniques.

• Introduced scaling compute using AWS SQS queues and KEDA for event-driven workloads, reducing infrastructure costs during quieter hours of traffic.

• Worked on improving SLO adoption across Compute teams through driving learning sessions and pairing with teams.

X-Lab Systems

• Migrated the National Pathology Exchange (NPEx) from on-premise to Azure cloud infrastructure to scale for pandemic response, supporting 6-10 million COVID-19 tests daily.

• Worked with the NCSC SOC to ensure the cloud infrastructure was secure and compliant, and used Splunk SIEM for tracking COVID test logs.

• Collaborated with NHS networking partners to establish cloud peering and transit networks, connecting Azure environments to NHS SPINE and laboratory networks.

Heycar

• DevOps Team Lead, worked on migrating the Lambda monolith to run on Kubernetes, reducing load times by 3 seconds, resulting in an increase of sales by 40%.

• Implemented pull request preview environments, enabling marketing and design teams to review features during development.

• Developed business continuity plans and assisted the finance team development tax credit applications.

Infinity Works

• Delivered cloud and Kubernetes migrations for enterprise clients including Sainsbury’s Group, Santander, and BP.

• Migrated Teradata infrastructure to AWS and Snowflake, updating existing processes and data flows.

• Worked on ensuring the cloud infrastructure was secure and compliant against various banking and retail standards, including CIS frameworks.

• Improved code integration and delivery pipelines, integrating pull request environments and security tools such as tfsec, trivy, and blackduck.

Education

BSc Computer Science – Upper Second-Class Honours

University of Brighton

References

Available upon request