Executive Director and avid technologist with a successful track record in different key industries (banking, retail, insurance, internet services, software), specialised in DevOps, Team Building, Cultural and Technical Transformations and Pre-sales Engineering.
Active conference speaker and community member, organizer of the London DevOps meetup, DevSecOps Days London and DevOps Exchange Barcelona.
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I started London DevOps with Matt Saunders over 10 years ago, we wanted to give back to the community and share knowledge.
We are always looking for venues and speakers, if you are interested drop us an e-mail at org@londondevops.co.uk
If you want to watch previous talks we have a full archive on YouTube
- Best practices for creating highly scalable platforms for cloud native apps
- OSS vs Enterprise, diferencias y usos
- Addressing Top Security Threats in Highly Regulated Environments
- DevOps in a Highly Regulated Environment
- Your Kernel and You, How cgroups Make Containers Possible
- Managing DevOps Teams, Staying Alive
- The DevOps Journey, How to Get There Painlessly
- Service Discovery and Puppet
- Puppet and Your Metadata
- A Metadata Ocean in Puppet and Chef
- Autoscaling Best Practices
- How to Implement Microservices
I have contributed to these books:
I have also been mentioned in this book:
- lynxman/hiera-consul - Hiera backend for Consul
- trainline/upstreamr - Upstreamer connects consul to nginx configuration and generates backends in real time
- trainline/environment-manager - Full deployment platform architected by Chris Turvil and myself
- canonical/cloud-init - I wrote some modules for cloud-init
- canonical/maas - Co-created MaaS as a way to make physical infrastructure behave like public cloud
- lynxman/mcollective-server-provisioner - mcollective plugin to provision physical servers
- lynxman/mcollective-plugins - Some plugins I wrote for mcollective
- lynxman/mcollective-plugins-execrun - Added the ability for mcollective to exec shell commands
- lynxman/consul-first-steps - Old demo of Consul, I need to update this 😅
- lynxman/chef-vagrant - Small vagrant project to test chef
Learning a ton about LLM and AI, plenty of good stuff from Patrick Debois.
Looking at the deployment space and thinking how can we make this better for everyone, Kubernetes has some really good solutions but there needs to be a way to make this easier for people outside of the K8s space. Special interest in what is happening with FluxCD and ArgoCD.
Researching new ways to shorten the latency in Linux networking through eBPF and to apply it to Kubernetes through Cillium.
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