Amateur Radio - Advanced License

BCNE — Brocade Certified Network Engineer

CCNP — Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCNA — Cisco Certified Network Associate

JNCIS(ER) — Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (Enterprise Routing)

JNCIS(MT) — Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (M & T Core Router Series)

JNCIA(ER) — Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (Enterprise Routing)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Firefighter

A break from corporate life in a radically different environment.
Tutoring students in Maths & Computer Science during study hall periods, IT helping hand.

Volunteer

Architect, build, automate CI/CD workflows, integrating with the private cloud OpenStack implementation. Consult with, advise stakeholders on CI/CD practices, containerization and cloud-centric solutions.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract

On-site development and implementation of BT's Cyber Security Platform using tech including: Cloudera, Apache Flume, Spark, Kafka, HDFS and Puppet, Docker.
Built out the CI/CD foundation and DevOps delivery processes for future machine learning / data science capability. Highly customer facing, handling technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Cyber Technical Specialist

As a build systems engineer, I work on behalf of Software (C++ / Python) and FPGA developers (VHDL / Verilog) to build and maintain development pipelines. A large amount of my work has been enabling Bazel for HDL (writing rules, toolchains, platforms), authoring tooling for things like dependency graph generation (Python) and separating out build processes into isolated containers (Docker). Generally making FPGA development easier by streamlining development / build / test workflows using Bazel. A specific focus on custom Bazel Rules for HDL, Xilinx Vivado + Vitis and container-based platforms.

FPGA Build System / Software Engineer

Architect + Implement Azure a large cloud migration for a financial services organisation. ASR + Terraform + TFS DevOps.

Cloud Architect - Contract

A break from enterprise life in a radically different environment. Tutoring students in Maths & Computer Science during study hall periods, IT helping hand.

Contracted to Rodan and Fields to overhaul CI+CD systems which support major business units, as well as architecting a new system for R&F’s new sponsor experience. Designed and implemented automated testing and deployment workflows predominately using Jenkins, Ansible and docker containerization.
- Production BigData platform integration
- Production customer facing (retail) e-commerce systems
- Production sponsor facing management systems
- Non-production development, testing and QA environments - Business facing management and reporting platforms

Initiated and led the development for SmartStack - Ultraserve’s CI / CD platform.
Manage and support day to day operations of large-scale e-commerce solutions in the AWS Cloud, evolving architecture to meet changing requirements.
Typical secure customer deployments include Cloudfront, ELB, WAF, Linux, Puppet / Ansible, Java, MySQL, SOLR, ElasticSearch, Loggly all of which closely follow a CI+CD based workflow.
Developed toolsets for internal team use to ease management and maintenance of AWS Cloud based and 3rd party infrastructure via APIs.
High-touch customer troubleshooting and performance analysis for application related issues in JVM. NewRelic.

Cloud Engineer

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

A fitness startup that sells weekly gym passes for access to partner gyms.
Implemented the complete technical stack - ‘Serverless’ AWS architecture based on Lambda, SNS, SQS, SES and DynamoDB. Integration with Cloudant (hosted MongoDB), Lucene/SOLR. Jenkins CI+CD. GitHub and BitBucket for code management. Loggly.
Designed and built the mobile application - Cordova wrapped Angular.JS frontend.
Vendor integration, Braintree Payments.

Working on measuring, improving and maintaining the developer experience at Canva.
Some of the tech: Golang, Bazel, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Nix, Python.

Heath Jones

Senior Software Engineer - Canva