Skills

What I reach for, roughly in order of how often I reach for it. The first group is where I spend most of a working week.

Platform and delivery

KubernetesAmazon EKSHelmTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoCDDockerJenkinsAzure DevOpsAWS CodeBuildHarborJFrog

Cloud

AWSAzureLanding zone designCost-aware architectureHybrid / multi-cloud

Security and quality

DevSecOpsPolicy-as-codeCheckovSonarQubeSASTContainer scanningVenafiFortanix

Observability

OpenTelemetry / ADOTPrometheus / AMPGrafana / AMGInstanaELK / KibanaOpsGenie

Version control and process

GitGitHubBitbucketJiraAgileWaterfall

Data and messaging

PostgresMicrosoft SQL ServerOracleRedisKafkaRedgate toolbelt

Programming

C#.NET CoreASP.NET MVCGroovyJavaScriptShellObject-oriented designMicroservicesUML

Programme exposure

DevSecOps and DevOps implementation · server consolidation · application migration and modernisation · platform evaluation · digital transformation · presales and consulting assignments.

Working with teams

Client communication, status reporting, team management, transition management, and the knowledge-transfer sessions that decide whether a platform survives its handover.