DevOps Engineer

2021 - Present

The Travel Corporation

• Designed and deployed Amazon EKS clusters using CloudFormation for scalable infrastructure provisioning.
• Migrated monolithic CMS applications to an event-driven microservices architecture on Kubernetes/EKS, growing the platform to 250+ microservices across 4 clusters.
• Mentored a team of junior and supporting engineers; prioritising tickets, pairing on solutions, and training engineers on AWS, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Linux, Bash and troubleshooting.
• Led a company-wide cost-reduction project that cut AWS spend by 60%, tuning Karpenter to minimise node churn, migrating OpenSearch clusters to private endpoints to reduce NAT gateway costs, and rightsizing databases and pod requests/limits using PerfectScale and Datadog.
• Further reduced AWS spend by decommissioning unused EC2 instances, EBS volumes and RDS databases, and introduced a tagging policy to track cost by project.
• Cut application deployment time from around an hour to under 10 minutes.
• Designed and automated ephemeral pull-request environments using GitHub Actions and Argo CD ApplicationSets.
• Automated deployment of AWS Lambda functions through CI/CD pipelines built in TeamCity and AWS CodePipeline.
• Implemented KEDA and Karpenter for pod and node level autoscaling, enabling scale-to-zero in lower environments during quiet hours and reducing compute costs alongside spot instance adoption.
• Standardised environment configuration with Kustomize, using shared base configuration and environment-specific overlays.
• Hardened cluster security by enforcing default-deny network policies, disabling privileged mode and privilege escalation, and requiring workloads to run as non-root.
• Drove Infrastructure-as-Code best practices, standardising on CloudFormation across teams for consistent, repeatable deployments across environments.

Software Developer

2019 - 2021

The Travel Corporation

• Automated deployment workflows using Octopus Deploy, enabling consistent multi-environment releases with rollback support.
• Monitored infrastructure, application and microservice performance using Datadog — building custom dashboards and alerting, and using APM and log analytics for proactive issue resolution and root cause analysis.
• Contributed to the design and development of distributed web applications, following agile practices including continuous integration, TDD, peer reviews, refactoring and knowledge sharing.
• Liaised with other teams to deliver integrated solutions, peer-reviewing their solution designs, providing technical documentation and support to the application support team, and contributing to refining delivery methodologies.

KS5 Coordinator & Head of Computer Science

2016 - 2019

Mossbourne Community Academy

• Led the Computer Science department, overseeing curriculum design, team development and student progress across GCSE and A-Level.
• Designed and delivered a whole-school Computer Science curriculum focused on programming, databases and emerging technologies, increasing student uptake.

Master of Arts in Leadership

2017 - 2018

University of East London

Strategic leadership and team management, developed leading cross-functional teams.

PGCE in Computer Science

2016 - 2017

University of East London

Designed and delivered engaging lessons on Python, with a focus on emerging technologies and student outcomes.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2013 - 2016

University of East London

First Class Honours — awarded the Final Year Computing Prize for the highest academic results.

Kubestronaut

2026

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

2026

KCSA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate

2026

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

2026

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

2025

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

2025

LFCA: Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate

2024

AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner

2024

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2022