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💻 Senior Cyber Platform Engineer at DWP, building secure cloud infrastructure and leading container-based solutions for data analytics 🛡️
🚀 What I do:
- Build and maintain AWS cloud platforms serving 20+ users
- Design zero-CVE container solutions using Docker & Terraform
- Lead DevOps transformations and increase test coverage from 10% to 85%
- Mentor engineering teams on security automation and best practices
🔧 My current tech stack:
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC), Terraform, Docker
- Languages: Python (Flask, Django, PyTest), TypeScript, Shell scripting
- DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, pre-commit hooks, automated security scanning
- Containers: Multi-stage builds, Chainguard images, container orchestration
🌱 On my learning wishlist: Kubernetes, Go, and Rust. I am really interested in these technologies
🧑🔬 Previous life: 10+ years as marine physicist and research scientist. I developed Python libraries to process data from ocean robots 🤖, research ships 🚢, and satellites 🛰️. Published 30+ scientific papers and spent 200+ days at sea 🌊. This background gives me unique approach to problem-solving and working with complex systems.
🏠 When not coding: Maintaining my homelab with self-hosted services and exploring Europe and UK in our campervan 🚐
- 🔒 Security automation: Implementing zero-CVE container images and automated security scanning
- 🧪 Testing & Quality: Transforming legacy applications with comprehensive test coverage
- 🚀 Platform engineering: Building developer-friendly infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
- 👥 Team enablement: Mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge through pair programming