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Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer

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Summary

Senior Platform and DevOps Engineer with a career spanning the full software lifecycle — from software development and business analysis to leading large-scale platform engineering. I modernize legacy on-premises systems into secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and turn days of manual deployment work into fast, automated delivery.

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

2022 — Present

  • Own end-to-end delivery for a large estate of microservices alongside a legacy monolith — builds, deployments, and configuration.
  • Lead modernization from on-premises to cloud, turning multi-day production deployments into automated cycles measured in minutes.
  • Standardize continuous integration across the organization on a reusable, security-scanned platform.
  • Fold AI-assisted tooling into engineering workflows for architecture, implementation, and verification.

Principal DevOps Engineer

2019 — 2022

  • Designed and ran continuous integration and deployment pipelines, cutting deployment cycles from hours to minutes.
  • Led the migration of core web and microservice workloads from on-premises to managed cloud services.
  • Built and tuned infrastructure monitoring for capacity planning and production incident response.

Systems Analyst

2016 — 2019

  • Improved software delivery workflows, shortening release cycles and reducing regressions on large consumer platforms.
  • Owned technical analysis for strategic initiatives spanning payments, partnerships, and business change.
  • Translated business needs into functional specifications for engineering teams.

Business Analyst / Product Owner

2014 — 2016

  • Directed product backlogs, roadmaps, and sprints to deliver customer-facing software in Agile teams.

Business Analyst

2012 — 2013

  • Gathered requirements and produced technical specifications for software clients across markets.
  • Ran user acceptance testing and mapped requirements for multi-market SaaS products.

Web & Mobile Platform Operator

2011 — 2012

  • Operated web and mobile platforms underpinning high-traffic consumer services.

Software Developer

2011

  • Early-career software development of in-house applications and internal tooling.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Cloud platforms
  • Hybrid & on-premises environments

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Continuous integration
  • Automated deployment
  • Infrastructure as code

Containerization & Orchestration

  • Containers
  • Container orchestration

Security & Compliance

  • Secure delivery pipelines
  • Compliance automation
  • Dependency & code scanning

Observability

  • Infrastructure monitoring
  • Logging analysis
  • Capacity planning

Agile Delivery

  • Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Product ownership & discovery

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science