I'm a hands-on Cloud, Software & Platform engineer who gets called in when infrastructure becomes expensive, fragile, or blocks delivery.
I’m a hands-on Cloud, Software & Platform engineer who gets called in when infrastructure becomes expensive, fragile, or blocks delivery.
With 7 years across AWS, GCP, and Azure, I specialise in untangling real-world systems, not just greenfield demos. I work across Kubernetes, VMs, Serverless and all public clouds helping teams stabilise production, reduce cloud spend, and build platforms that engineers actually enjoy using.
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Red Hat Certified Engineer
Based in New Zealand (UTC+12)
Primarily taking on smaller, short-term engagements
Message me with what you’re dealing with and I’ll tell you if I can help.
Built a scalable Kubernetes platform with Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform, enabling fully automated CI/CD pipelines, autoscaling, and secure preview environments. Developers can deploy new app instances entirely via Git, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes and improving reliability and developer productivity.
Led a team revamping legacy data processing using the medallion architecture, building real-time ETL pipelines with Azure Databricks, Spark, Jupyter, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CosmosDB, and Delta Tables. Enabled high-throughput weather data ingestion from multiple sources via Azure Functions. Standardized Databricks workflows, automated deployments with GitHub Actions, and implemented GitOps-style Terraform deployments to Azure and AWS. Built workflows to deploy/test Azure Function and Container Apps, designed secure REST APIs for Delta Lakes, and developed internal tools for Delta Table management, data cleaning, and legacy system comparisons
Re-architected Google Cloud into a secure landing zone with Shared VPC, centralized logging, and guardrails - building foundations to scale from 10 to 25 to 50+ engineers while maintaining compliance - Built a self-service GitOps platform for 25+ engineers, eliminating manual deployment bottlenecks and accelerating release velocity. - Designed multi-environment Kubernetes workflows (dev, UAT, staging, prod) with namespace isolation and safe promotion paths, reducing failures and downtime while enabling rapid iteration. - Automated security enforcement with policy-as-code (Kyverno), ensuring resource limits, network policies, and image checks run automatically, preventing mistakes and lowering operational risk. - Implemented observability and structured logging across all environments, enabling faster debugging and proactive incident response. - Standardized Terraform + CI/CD practices, separating platform from team resources, making infrastructure changes repeatable, auditable, and safe at scale. - Introduced just-in-time production access, removing standing privileges, reducing blast radius, and giving engineers secure, time-bound access when needed.
Delivered DevOps management services to large clients, optimizing cloud infrastructure and application platforms (EC2, RDS, EKS, ECS, CodePipeline, Config, SecurityHub, SNS) using AWS CDK, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Led initiatives aligning client image configurations with global security standards (CIS 1.5.0), resolving 100+ tickets via JIRA, Azure VM Image Builder, and ARM. Integrated Azure Sentinel with Microsoft Teams for real-time security alerts. Managed large-scale infrastructure modernization across 12+ AWS accounts and hundreds of instances. Migrated a WordPress site to an ARM-based autoscaling group, reducing costs by 30%, improving performance by 25%, and enhancing stability. Mentored junior engineers and guided best practices in cloud and DevOps solutions.
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