BRAG

Achievements

Researched, designed, and implemented a new system for deploying modules including fallbacks, automatic module deletion and version management.
Introduced several new checks to platform repo.
Lead several incidents and followed up with post-mortems.
Initialised and lead EKS upgrade to bring new infrastructure to downstream version.
Heavily expanded platform repo with new modules and objects in order to enable a more DRY development environment.
Lead initiative to centralise all Whereby accounts to non-personal ownership and limit API keys.
Extended image-builder module with multiple lambdas including slack notifications and cleanup jobs.
Increased stability of recording service by fixing an issue that had stumped other developers for 6 months.
Lead responses to multiple incidents.
Helped various engineers with broken deployments in #deployments.

Extended platform documentation, contribution guides, etc.
Created github-actions repo and extrapolated deployment process for builds across company which have subsequently been made open-source.
Designed and implemented certificate-management EKS addon.
Designed versioning tools for platform repository including notifications of conflicting PRs, draft versions and auto-cleanup.

Established “newbie forum” aimed at improving onboarding experience for new Wherebyrds.
Lead cost reduction initiative in sandbox accounts.
Founding member of the social-committee.
Shared a lot of dog photos.