Ian O'Brien

A pragmatic leader with a passion for using technology to deliver solutions to problems great and small. Blending technical expertise with product thinking, I believe that technical effort should be driven by commercial outcomes, and that building the right things at the right time is the key to a successful engineering organisation. My technical leadership is underpinned by over 10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform and Infrastructure as an Engineer and Consultant. I love the opportunity to work on complex challenges, whether they involve technology, people, or process - and they're usually a mixture of all three! Areas of Technical Focus: • DevOps (SRE, Platform Engineering and DX) • Cloud (AWS, GCP and Azure) • Cloud-Native Platforms (Kubernetes, Serverless, Lambda) • Systems Architecture (Microservice Architectures, Distributed Systems) Technical Snapshot: Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure DevOps Tools: Terraform, Jenkins, Gitlab, CircleCI, Azure Devops, ArgoCD, Helm, kops, Git, Packer, Artifactory, Certmanager Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Fargate, EC2 Security & Testing: Snyk, Anchore, Sonarqube, Cypress, JMeter, PACT Serverless: Lambda, Step Functions, Serverless Framework Languages: Bash, Powershell, Python, Go, Javascript, GraphQL Networking: ELB, ALB, NLB, Nginx, Kong, Kuma, Istio Monitoring/Logging: Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Prometheus, Datadog Data: Kafka, Confluent, MSK, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Looker Databases: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS Miscellaneous: AppSync, SES, SQS, LaunchDarkly, ACM, AWS Batch Architectural Patterns: Event-Driven, Serverless, Microservices, Chaos Engineering, Micro-Frontends, Domain driven design Processes: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Product Teams, TDD, BDD