SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit clients anywhere in the UK. DevOps / Python guy with a decade's experience building, hosting and t

SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit clients anywhere in the UK. DevOps / Python guy with a decade's experience building, hosting and tuning applications. I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it. Recent projects include: + Productionizing & re-hosting a Python big data application for a bioscience client. I moved the project to a robust, scalable stack deployed via Terraform to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. End results included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time. + AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration. + Another AWS/k8s/Docker stack, this time with a persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring. + Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Haven't got rich yet. + Chef-managed deployment of a large microservice stack across cloud and physical servers with varied configurations. + Support, enhancements and development for a number of Django projects. hn-2018-03@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4 https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4