Tim Gibbon 07977 549 321 [email protected]⌗

Professional Experience⌗

Jul 2022 - Current Senior DevOps Engineer, Missionlabs/Gammalabs⌗

  • Terraform build and deployment to 30 AWS/3 GCP Accounts (bitbucket pipelines).
  • 3 major projects delivered within timescales, budget and to 99.98% annual availability.
  • Cost optimisation - designed and implemented power saving for EKS and EC2 resulting in $264,000 reduction in 2023 AWS costs.
  • ArgoCD implemented to increase development team velocity.
  • Migrated Call-Centre as a Service (CCaaS) from on-premise hardware (docker-compose) to AWS (EKS/kubernetes) within 2 months.
  • Ported Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) project from AWS to GCP for disaster recovery.
  • Lead Disaster recovery engineer.
  • Build out of Grafana/Prometheus/Thanos for high availability metrics and monitoring.
  • Trivy deployment, allowing developers to identify security vulnerabilities during development.
  • Zero downtime Upgrades of Kubernetes (EKS) clusters from versions 1.21 through 1.28.

Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 Senior DevOps Engineer/Engineering Manager, Peak⌗

  • CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Database/Datalake Administration.
  • CI/CD (Codebuild, CodeDeployment, Github Actions).
  • RStudio/Jupyter build/deployment.
  • Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Cost optimisation

2014 - 2021 Senior Linux Engineer, UKFast Ltd.⌗

2007 - 2014 Partner, Lunarlite LLP.⌗

2004 - 2006 Senior UNIX Engineer, Orange.⌗

2003 - 2004 Customer Services Engineer, Tower Technology/Vignette IDM.⌗

2001 - 2003 UNIX Technical specialist, GSK.⌗

2000 - 2001 Contractor, Equities Technology, Goldman Sachs.⌗

1999 - 2000 System Administrator, Crown Digital.⌗

1998 - 1999 UNIX Administrator, Investment Property Databank Ltd.⌗

Relevant Skills⌗

  • AWS/GCP.
  • Kubernetes, EKS, GKE.
  • Python, Golang (learning!), bash.
  • Virtualisaton and Cross compilation.
  • Terraform and Cloudformation.
  • Kepner Tregoe Analytical troubleshooting.
  • Performance and monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Cloudwatch.
  • Database Administration: Redshift, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Or- acle, Redis.
  • Bespoke Linux Distribution creation.
  • DBS checked.
  • ITIL - Change control, auditing and reporting. SOC2 and ISO27001 au- diting.

Education⌗

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist.
  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
  • Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Adminstrator.
  • AWS: Certified Solutions Architect.
  • AWS: Certified SysOps Administrator.
  • AWS: Certified Cloud Practictioner.
  • AWS: Certified Developer.
  • GCP: Associate Cloud Engineer.
  • Linux: Red Hat Certified Engineer.
  • PhD: Laser Photofragment Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecular Ions.
  • BSc: Physics.

Other Interests⌗

  • Vinyl collector/gig goer.
  • Fiction.
  • Skiing/Outdoor pursuits.
  • Founder member of RossLUG.

References⌗

Available upon request.