diff --git a/ic/cv.tex b/ic/cv.tex index 9b2fde9..1baaa2c 100755 --- a/ic/cv.tex +++ b/ic/cv.tex @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ \section{About me} \item Postgres administration and tuning, along with the underlying disks and OS \item Provisioning and orchestration with Terraform, Ansible, Packer, \texttt{userdata} \item Elasticsearch; lucene query design and cluster management specifically +\item Multi-cloud platform design using AWS, Azure, and GCP \end{itemize} \input{includes/systems.tex} diff --git a/includes/employment.tex b/includes/employment.tex index 6db4858..4d72b6c 100644 --- a/includes/employment.tex +++ b/includes/employment.tex @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ \section{Employment} {December 2019 - August 2020} {Scratch Financial, a Fintech Startup} {Consultant Cloud Architect} - {Ownership of internal platform services, leading the design, implementation, and training for the re-platforming of Scratchpay.com. First line 1-to-1s for operations team. Budgeting and cost optimisation of processes and tooling, with an emphasis on self-service platforms and open-source tooling.} + {Ownership of internal platform services, leading the design, implementation, and training for the re-platforming of Scratchpay.com on GCP. First line 1-to-1s for operations team. Budgeting and cost optimisation of processes and tooling, with an emphasis on self-service platforms and open-source tooling.} \end{tabular*} @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ \section{Employment, continued} {February 2017 - October 2018} {Beamly Ltd., a Marketing Startup} {Principal Engineer, Platform Lead} - {Design, ownership, and management of the award-winning Beamly Fragrance Finder platform, an AI driven chatbot which mapped user-profiles, personality questions, and decades worth of customer knowledge to purchasing recommendations; this team was massively behind-deadline and close to being over-budget when I was brought on to manage it. Through aggressive hiring, stakeholder management, and a general re-architecture of the platform, I brought it in on-time, under-budget, and was able to work alongside the sales team to restore trust to the product, making money for the company. I also grew the Platform Engineering team to 15 people, provided technical leadership through coaching and training, and running 1-to-1s, performance reviews, and promotion applications while supporting NodeJS, Scala, and Golang applications in production..} + {Design, ownership, and management of the award-winning Beamly Fragrance Finder platform, an AI driven chatbot which mapped user-profiles, personality questions, and decades worth of customer knowledge to purchasing recommendations; this team was massively behind-deadline and close to being over-budget when I was brought on to manage it. Through aggressive hiring, stakeholder management, and a general re-architecture of the platform, I brought it in on-time, under-budget, and was able to work alongside the sales team to restore trust to the product, making money for the company. I also grew the Platform Engineering team to 15 people, provided technical leadership through coaching and training, and running 1-to-1s, performance reviews, and promotion applications while supporting NodeJS, Scala, and Golang applications in production, on a multi-cloud platform of AWS, GCP, and Azure} \entry {April 2016 - November 2016} @@ -75,8 +75,11 @@ \section{Employment, continued} {June 2013 - November 2013} {Hogarth Worldwide, part of the WPP group} {Senior Devops Engineer} - {Management of large video platform for multinational advertising house, developer of ops tooling and creation and management of API gateway for client; mentorship of junior colleagues.} + {Management of large video platform for multinational advertising house, developer of ops tooling and creation and management of API gateway for client; mentorship of junior colleagues. A white-paper I wrote with Microsoft staff was used to develop Azure's SQL Database.} +\end{tabular*} +\section{Employment, continued} +\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}ll} \entry {January 2012 - June 2013} {Simply Business, a Fintech startup} diff --git a/includes/systems.tex b/includes/systems.tex index 95297f7..9d7447d 100644 --- a/includes/systems.tex +++ b/includes/systems.tex @@ -9,4 +9,12 @@ \section{Systems} \item security and management \item architecture and design \end{itemize} +\item Cloud computing + \begin{itemize} + \item AWS since ca. 2011 + \item Azure since ca. 2013 (the original version of Azure SQL is based on a paper I co-authored) + \item GCP since ca. 2017 + \item Various smaller clouds, such as Digitalocean, Hetzner, OVH + \item I have also run teams of datacentre engineers \textit{providing} cloud and PaaS platforms + \end{itemize} \end{itemize}