I build and operate resilient, Kubernetes-first platforms that help teams ship reliably and repeatedly. My work sits at the intersection of SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering combining hands-on engineering depth with a focus on operational maturity, developer experience, and pragmatic automation.

I’ve worked across multi-cloud, highly regulated, and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) environments—helping teams move from manual, fragile workflows to automated delivery with clear guardrails, observability, and supportability.

• Reliability & Platforms: Evolving SRE and platform practices across complex estates (cloud + regulated/CNI)
• Building & Automating: GitOps workflows, pipeline optimisation, and Python-based tooling to reduce toil
• Collaboration: Tight loops with dev teams—platform work only counts if it gets used
• Let’s talk: SLOs/error budgets, Kubernetes/OpenShift ops, CI/CD, GitOps, incident response, observability

• Reducing developer cognitive load with opinionated defaults and self-service workflows
• SRE practices that drive prioritisation: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets
• Kubernetes/OpenShift environments that scale operationally, not just technically
• Incident response → learning via blameless postmortems and systemic fixes
• Automation-first delivery using IaC, GitOps, and reliable pipelines

• Improved CI/CD pipeline runtime by ~30–40% through optimisation and standardisation
• Delivered “Path to Prod” workflows supporting cloud and regulated/CNI environments
• Enabled safer releases for 40+ apps by tightening promotion, validation, and deployment flows
• Raised observability maturity by focusing on actionable signals over dashboard sprawl

I like platforms that:

• Provide safe defaults and clear golden paths (without blocking edge-cases)
• Treat reliability as a product feature
• Reduce toil with automation rather than relying on tribal knowledge
• Keep ownership clear: “self-service” should still be supportable

Pinned repositories generally focus on:

• Platform/infrastructure automation and quality-of-life tooling
• Delivery workflows, GitOps patterns, and operational improvements
• Solving recurring reliability problems once, properly

I write occasionally about reliability engineering, incident response, and platform maturity—often drawing parallels between emergency medicine and operating complex systems under pressure.

• Life Lessons from the Ambulance: How Emergency Medicine Shaped My Approach to IT
• Preparation is Key: A Peek into My Pre-Shift Rituals in Medicine and IT
• The Lifelong Journey of Learning: CPD in Medicine and IT
• Unified Command: Synchronised Communication in Medicine and IT
• From Medical Emergency to IT Outage: My Evolution in Crisis Management

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