John Fredrickson
Director of Platform Engineering @FreeAgent
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Platform Engineering @FreeAgent
EDUCATION
Kingston University
BSc (Hons), Computing and Business Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT JOHN FREDRICKSON
Successful senior Platform and DevOps Leader, whose management superpower is bringing people together to work effectively and positively. Huge history of successful deliveries against complex challenges. Has solid technical, operational and strategic management experience gained managing internet-facing services at large scale.While balancing strategic leadership responsibilities, I remain deeply engaged with technical decisions, system design reviews, and hands-on problem-solving.Recent highlights include:Leading part of FreeAgent\'s initiative to explore AI-driven and agentic development approaches. Established beachhead projects to evaluate generative AI integration for internal tooling and developer experience, with early positive results validating the approach for broader adoption.Established ML systems lifecycle management across model development, training, deployment, and monitoring. Built governance frameworks and observability standards for production ML workloads supporting data science team initiatives.Owned platform strategy spanning developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure modernization, observability, and reliability standards. Established architecture review processes and engineering best practices across platform and application teams.Balanced reliability (>99.995% uptime) with velocity (350+ monthly production releases,>96% deployment success). Established adn enabled incident response and release governance frameworks that enabled teams to move fast while maintaining confidence.
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