Callum P.

Senior Devops Engineer @Humanforce

Standardizing the developer tool chain and streamlining the deployment, monitoring and incident processes across 4 products- Exposed new metrics from the platform to support better reliability and performance- Heavily involved in architecture and design of services and infrastructure- Created a culture of infrastructure-as-code instead of click-ops deployments- Consolidated 4 different CICD tools into one - Octopus Deploy, Teamcity, BitBucket pipelines, GitHub Actions into just GitHub Actions- Updated IaC processes to enable developers to self service infra changes through tools like Atlantis and ArgoCD- Optimized AWS spending by reducing CloudWatch costs by over 50%, EC2 by 30%- Implemented a Slack bot to allow developers and other personnel to self service common requests such as feature flag management, customer termination etc- Worked closely with other business units to ensure product needs are met- Nurtured a culture of openness and transparency instead private messages & channels and silod knowledge- Managed post incident reports and often involved in implementing solutions to prevent incidents re-occurring.My role at Humanforce requires being an expert at these, among many other things- Terraform- Python- CloudFormation- Kubernetes - both self hosted and EKS and all the tooling to go along with K8S like the Prometheus stack, IAM for service accounts, Helm- CICD- Just about all AWS services: ECS, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, Lambda, API GW, CloudFront