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 &amp; image serving.  Prometheus &amp; 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 &amp; resiliency features.  Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances &amp; continuous integration.
+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading.  Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancing thread.
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