SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in London, UK) DevOps / Python consultant with over ten years experience building, hosting and fixing applications. I work with e

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in London, UK) DevOps / Python consultant with over ten years experience building, hosting and fixing applications. I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, lambdas, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, training, security audits - you name it I've done it. Recent projects include: + Migrating a sizeable websockets application based on django-channels to AWS Fargate. This took numerous modifications to a venerable codebase and shifting the 300+GB Postgres DB was far from trivial. The resulting setup has halved the stack's operating cost and greatly improved its uptime. + Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again. + Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. The result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits 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. + Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancing thread. hn-2019-05@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4 https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4