Learn more about me and how I got to where I am today
I’ve been working in technology fields in some shape or form, since early 2016, having started my college degree, Computer Systems, in 2015. It quickly became more of a hobby than just a career, where I took a keen interest in cloud computing. That interest quickly turned into what I initially wanted to do in my career and that’s what I followed. I still kept an interest in software engineering and when I feel like, I’m quite happy to write up some code to solve a problem.
Most of my hobbies center around technology, Self Hosting in particular. Running my own services and maintaining as much control over my personal data as possible, has been a big mission in my life. I'm not perfect at it, but I do my best which is all I can do. Gaming is also a big hobby of mine which enables me to experience some escapism from the craziness that is the world at times. Which is all powered by a healthy love of music listening. Finally if my schedule allows it, tuning in to the Formula 1 on the weekend is always a plus
If you’d like to learn more about my career path so far, just keep on scrolling!
Side Business
From May 2016 to April 2019, my primary income and focus was being a sole trader, trading under the name Suvoken Cloud Solutions. I offered an end to end solution for clients to run their presence online, with a primary focus on the website aspect of this. I designed and built the website along with the hosting services for that website, on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). At peak, my infrastructure supported up to 600,000 annual visitors to client websites. Today, this venture continues in a far smaller capacity in terms of client base and the level of traffic. But, I continue to grow the product line, trading under my own name now. I'm always willing to hear about use cases that potential clients might have, be it a website or even enabling their home with technology that has a focus on some of the tenants of self hosting, keeping things local, private and additive
McKesson
My career with McKesson started back in January 2018 as a Software Engineer Intern, on work placement from my college. We worked on some initial versions of CI/CD pipelines, that was overall, a new concept to the organisation. As an intern, I had to present on various projects to leadership of the company, which included the CTO at the time. The pipelines at the time relied on Concourse, Sonarqube and Artifactory. I worked full time as an intern for eight months, then continued as a part time contractor till June 2019. From July 2019 till April 2021, I worked as an Associate Platform Engineer, part of the Platform Services team. On this team, I helped support over 900 applications and 2000 containers across PCF and Kubernetes This peaked at around 23 systems in total, supported across multiple geographies. Work included general platform administration, application team engagement and incident management.
C.H. Robinson
Since May 2021, I’ve been working as a DevOps Software Engineer III for C.H. Robinson and absolutely loving it! With an existing pipeline infrastructure in place that supports thousands of applications with hundreds of deployments to production every day. The team has implemented new standards of pipelines in the organisation which have been met with a good reception. For a few years now, I've been focused on uplifting and maintaining the infrastructure that powers the teams tools and services. It's been a great opportunity to expand my leadership skills and technical abilities, with still a lot left to do in this space!
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