# cat about.md

Details & Experience

Principal DevOps & Platform Engineering Leader based in London, focused on sovereign and national cloud infrastructure. I found platform gaps before they become incidents — governance, automation, and the CI/CD backbone that lets twenty-plus teams ship safely into regulated environments.

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Principal DevOps Engineer

current

SAP

Apr 2024 — Present · Greater London, UK · On-site

  • Founder and technical lead of the SAP BTP Operational Delivery team — operational reliability and platform governance for SAP’s Sovereign Cloud platform.
  • Leading DevOps and platform operations for 24/7 production delivery, service onboarding and infrastructure automation.
  • Partnering with 20+ SAP product teams on secure, reliable deployment into a sovereign cloud environment built for regulated, national infrastructure use cases.
AWSKubernetesCloud FoundryBOSHTerraform

Senior DevOps Engineer

SAP

Jun 2023 — Mar 2024 · London, UK

  • Stepped into platform operations for SAP’s sovereign cloud offering, laying the operational groundwork later formalised into the Operational Delivery team.
KubernetesTerraformAWS

Senior Cloud Engineer

Nordcloud, an IBM Company

Oct 2021 — Mar 2023 · United Kingdom

  • Embedded with the WebOps team on the NHS App’s Azure infrastructure, building Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines and managing Akamai edge configuration.
  • Led a GCP security audit for AXA Insurance against GCP and HashiCorp best practices, covering Terraform IaC and CI/CD pipeline review (Bash/Python).
  • Delivered core GCP infrastructure for Lloyds Banking, including a Terraform landing zone deployment and Istio integration across IAM, GKE and SCC.
AzureGCPTerraformIstioCI/CD

Cloud Engineer

AND Digital

Sep 2020 — Oct 2021 · Manchester, UK

  • Modernised AWS infrastructure for CEF (Electrical Wholesalers), building the AWS Landing Zone in Terraform.
  • Integrated GitLab CI runners on AWS Fargate, connecting Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch into the deployment pipeline.
AWSTerraformFargateGitLab CI

Cloud Platform Engineer

Cloud Technology Solutions

Jul 2018 — Aug 2020 · Manchester, UK

  • Designed and implemented BeyondCorp, a Zero Trust security model for accountant applications on GCP, integrated into the Jenkins pipeline with Terraform and Packer.
  • Built a new Kubernetes (GKE) environment with Terraform and Argo CD.
  • Delivered an MS RDS High Availability cluster for a retail application, deployed via the Jenkins pipeline.
GCPKubernetesTerraformJenkinsZero Trust

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Beauty Bay

Dec 2017 — Jul 2018 · United Kingdom

  • Built and operated AWS infrastructure as code across CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, S3, ASG, Elasticsearch, VPC, Route53, Lambda, SSM, Direct Connect, IAM and CloudWatch.
  • Administered Linux and Windows servers and ran configuration management, deployments and monitoring via Docker, Chef, TeamCity/Octopus and Zabbix.
AWSCloudFormationDockerChef

Support Engineer

Mar 2017 — Dec 2017

  • Provided infrastructure support in a Linux- and Git-grounded role.
LinuxGit

Support Developer

Inventive IT (acquired by ADVAM in 2014)

Jul 2015 — Feb 2017 · Manchester, UK

  • Provided support engineering across AWS and Linux infrastructure, with hands-on Git-based version control.
AWSLinuxGit

IT System Analyst

Neste Oil

Feb 2014 — Jul 2015

  • Delivered corporate and local IT solutions end-to-end — from project management through development, implementation and ongoing support.
  • Supported Neste Oil’s payment card and invoicing systems, plus international user and infrastructure operations across Windows Server 2008/2012, Unix, Active Directory and telephony (PBX).
  • Contributed to IT strategy and cost-saving initiatives as the team’s IT security specialist.
BashWindows ServerActive Directory

IT Support Technician

Neste Oil

Oct 2006 — Feb 2014 · Latvia

  • Provided user and infrastructure support — desktop builds, imaging, storage and backup — for the Latvia office.
  • Managed Windows (XP/7/8) and Windows Server 2008/2012 / UNIX environments, including virtualisation.
  • Supported customer payment card authorisation and invoicing processes.
Windows ServerUNIXVirtualisation

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Cloud Platforms

AWSGCPAzureSAP BTP

Orchestration

KubernetesCloud FoundryBOSHArgo CDDocker

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformCloudFormationPackerChef

CI/CD

JenkinsGitLab CIAzure DevOpsTeamCityOctopus Deploy

Security & Governance

Zero Trust / BeyondCorpIAMIstioSCC

Scripting & Ops

PythonBashPowerShellYAMLZabbixCloudWatch

# open to

Principal/Staff platform engineering leadership

Full-time leadership roles or advisory work in sovereign cloud, platform governance and Kubernetes at scale — always glad to talk through a hard infrastructure problem first.

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