Senior Software Engineer specialising in Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure automation.
I build deterministic, reproducible, Everything-as-Code platforms that remove operational burden and make teams faster, safer, and more scalable.
I am especially motivated by:
- Automation-first engineering
- Declarative platforms
- Reliability, correctness, and long-term maintainability
- Open source
- Helping teams level up through structure, clarity, and coaching
All my public work is fully libre and open source.
Kubernetes | Ansible | ArgoCD | HAProxy | Cilium
A fully automated multi-architecture bare-metal Kubernetes platform.
Highlights:
- HA control plane bootstrap with automated join and upgrades.
- GitOps for full cluster lifecycle.
- Deterministic configuration, zero manual operations.
Go | Tinkerbell | Kubernetes-native provisioning
A Kubernetes-native bare-metal provisioning pipeline that converts unprovisioned servers into HA clusters using PXE and immutable images.
Terraform | GitHub Actions
Declarative automation for managing entire GitHub organisations from a single YAML file.
- Creates repos, secrets, workflows, permissions, and registries.
- Enforces consistency and eliminates drift across an organisation.
Go | Terraform | AWS ECS | GitHub Actions | Everything-as-Code
A collaborative event-planning platform built with a clean, deterministic Go backend and deployed through a fully automated IaC pipeline.
Highlights:
- Backend service for multi-dimensional voting workflows.
- Zero-manual ECS deployment pattern using Terraform modules.
- Automated CI/CD, secure defaults, and reproducible environments.
- Part of a wider Evoteum estate using organisation-wide IaC and GitOps.
jamesgeddes/itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas
Python | Terraform
An automated data-pipeline measuring the "Christmasyness" of the internet over time. Runs unattended for years thanks to deterministic IaC and fully scripted orchestration.
EppingForestPipeBand/EppingForestPipeBand.github.io
Jekyll | GitHub Pages | Terraform
A photography and media gallery for The Epping Forest Pipe Band. Simple, reliable, and maintained via GitHub Pages for low operational overhead.
Community engagement platform
A web system for managing community events, membership, and engagement for the Geek.Zone charity.
- Design high-availability Kubernetes and AWS architectures
- Build end-to-end IaC pipelines using Terraform, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, and GitLab
- Create repeatable deployment platforms (golden paths) for engineering teams
- Implement automation-first infrastructure engineering
- Champion upstream-aligned, low-friction, deterministic systems
- Coach and mentor engineers in DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture
If you would like to collaborate, hire me, or chat about infrastructure automation, feel free to shout.