George Burton
Head of Platform Engineering @Napier AI
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Platform Engineering @Napier AI
London, GB
I lead a small but highly skilled Platform Engineering/DevOps team that are distributed globally. I am still very hands on technically and thoroughly enjoy it, but have found building the team and helping them develop their careers extremely rewarding. Some of the highlights to date- Helped Napier secure significant investment through major overhaul of our Platform and the resulting growth it enabled- Enabled our Operations team to deploy and manage 100+ Kubernetes clusters running customer workloads through automation using our platform- Platform Technology stack: Azure AKS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Nginx, Keycloak, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka and others- Platform Service languages (separate from the core product): Go, Python, Bash
EDUCATION
Munster Technological University
MSc Cloud Computing, Computer Science
The University of Manchester
BSc Geography & Geology, GeoSciences
SKILLS
ABOUT GEORGE BURTON
I lead platform engineering teams to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems that enable developers to move faster and innovate with confidence. My focus is on cloud infrastructure, automation, and site reliability—ensuring that platforms are not just robust but also efficient and easy to work with.I’m passionate about creating a strong engineering culture, where teams have the right tools and processes to build great software without unnecessary friction. Whether it’s optimizing CI/CD, improving observability, or driving architectural decisions, I love solving complex challenges that make a real impact.Always open to discussing platform strategy, engineering leadership, and how to scale technology teams effectively.
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