Chris Cowley

– Principal architect for multiple large retail clients using Cloud Technologies, including AWS, GCP and Kubernetes – Primary Kubernetes trainer – Client-facing - everything from helping the client's junior "devops" to discussions with C-level. – Technical project management of various scales. Some clients a simple HA LAMP stack up to Cloud-Native projects with hundreds of nodes and 1000s of connections per hour – Technical guidance and "thought-leadership" for both clients and internal teams. – Creating CI/CD processes and infrastucture as code using both industry and internal best-practises, that can then be used by others. – Using my experience to enabled others to produce more than they could previously

– DevOps engineer embedded within a small team of developers – Managing the local network, tooling and hosting of a LAMP based medical records application used globally.

– Infrastructure engineer embedded within a the R&D team. Lots of Puppet, Node.js, PHP, MySQL, AWS, VMware and containers – Principle infrastructure architect for Klaxoon.com and its development environment – The bridge allowing the work of some amazing developers to shine reliably and securely.

– Cloud Storage, Virtualisation, Big Data – Working on cloud projects big and small. From running a workshop with a local council on the pros and cons of Samba4, to managing the EMC storage as part of a global communications project, to developing a proof-of-concept for media encoding on Openstack.

– Responsible for all Linux and Storage infrastructure. An important aspect was bridging the gap to the Video engineers as their world merged with mine.

– Instrumental in the development of the next-generation Air Traffic Control tool set.