May. 2020 - Jun. 2021London, England, United KingdomI am your next door observability guy. Logs analytics | Metrics Monitoring | Traces Analytics | you name it
- Centralised Log Analytics - EFK Stack - Elasticsearch set up and config
- Prometheus Monitoring and Alerting setup and config
- Grafana Dashboarding
- ISTIO Mesh setup and operation
- Jaeger - centralised Traces Analytics Here in the Value Ready Solution dept I create all sorts of Observability focused IaC prototypes, sometimes I also deploy them on client site. Training includes:
- Strong Kubernetes networking fundamentals - Systems Administration CentOS / Ubuntu - CI/CD Pipelines
- Loads of DataOps & SecOps --- Extensive Bash scripting
- Terraform / IaC and MicroServices Architecture - API design and development (REST)
- Other Scripting: Python | Javascript | Yaml
Tata Consultancy ServicesGraduate DevOps Engineer
May. 2019 - Apr. 2020London, England, United Kingdom- AWS Systems Architecture - Terraform Orchestration
- Kubernetes Orchestration of Dockerized services
Anderson Anderson & Brown LLPWealth Management Placement Student
Feb. 2017 - Jun. 2017Aberdeen, United Kingdom• Assisted financial advisers in client meetings and liaised directly with clients on relationship management matters
• Liaised with Italian Banking Ombudsmen & Tucofin Association representatives to obtain relevant guidance and pass on to IFAs
• Collaborated with the para-planning team in creating tailored life time cashflow models for clients approaching retirement
• Delivered an Aberdeenshire area competitors charging structure research and analysis to the Director of Wealth
• Devised a VBA tool to compare the impact of different charging structures on an initial investment of £250k over 6 years
Anderson Anderson & Brown LLPCorporate Finance Services Placement Student
Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2017Aberdeen, United Kingdom• Research project on worldwide private equity potential acquirers of a £6.5M EBITDA group
• Assisted senior colleagues in the formulation of pitch documentation for fundraising purposes
• Trained in group accounts consolidations, financial projections & modelling
• Created an Aberdeenshire Veterinary and Dentists contacts database for marketing purposes
• Designed an Aberdeenshire oil industry consultancy firms map to facilitate M&A research • Involved in the recruitment process of new interns and graduates with a focus on international students
Anderson Anderson & Brown LLPFraud Investigation Services Intern
Jul. 2016 - Sep. 2016Aberdeen, United Kingdom• Written a series of 6 blog articles on GDPR compliance issues
• Proposed and obtained lead of marketing project to approach more than 80k companies to sell whistle-blowing services
• Reorganised the divisional contacts database into a VBA spreadsheet to include smart categories by industry and entity size
• Researched contacts of 100k+ UK executives through Fame & Osiris Databases • The project resulted in dozens of clients wins and to receiving the Awesome Service Award
Poldino's Ristorante and PizzeriaAssistant Manager
Jul. 2016 - Aug. 2018Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Poldino's Ristorante and PizzeriaWaiter
Jan. 2015 - Jul. 2016Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Satay HouseChef De Partie - Starters and Desserts
Nov. 2010 - Sep. 2011London, United Kingdom
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