Andrew Hughes-Onslow

Devops Engineer and Software Developer

Devops engineer and software developer with over a decade of experience working for public and private sector projects in senior, lead and architect roles. Scrum master holding security clearance.

Predominantly working with Drupal / PHP, Python and Node / JS applications
Architected and deployed microservice and serverless systems with data pipelines
Experienced with Docker and containerised deployment with ECS
Significant experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and CloudFormation
Creation and automation of CI / CD pipelines CircleCI and CodePipeline

Employment

Devops Engineer & Technical Architect > March 2022 to present

Department Trade (Office for Product Safety & Standards) > Primary Authority Register

Strategy and architecture for a move from GovUK PaaS to AWS
Overseeing and mentoring a new team of engineers and QA to take the service to BAU support
Communication with SOC, accessibility, content and wider teams to achieve GovUK Service Standard
High-level roadmapping and requirement gathering with non-technical stakeholders
Encouraging the rollout of continuous delivery

Lead Devops Engineer > July 2020 to January 2022

Fetch for Pets > Multi-vendor pet product wholesaler & ad-tech platform

Planned and architected a cloyd-native highly scalable ad-tech platform to push organic growth for 100k products
Deployed ECS and serverless infrastructure with event-driven data pipelines using Terraform and Cloud Formation
Development of Python application to analyse sales data with revenue in excess of $1million / day
Designed service diagrams to explain each data pipeline, its function and results to the team and stakeholders
Built an observability and monitoring platform with Cloud Watch and Grafana to communicate data weaknesses
Championed agile working across a team with wide ranging skill sets and industry experience, with a focus on producing valuable metrics to inform business value

Lead Developer & Dev-Ops Engineer > June 2017 to March 2022

Department BEIS (Office for Product Safety & Standards) > Primary Authority Register

Responsible for leading the development for a Drupal-backed government service
Modelling the data architecture and migrating the service from an existing .NET application
Administration of devops and CI pipeline with blue-green deployments (Cloud Foundry and AWS)
Implemented Redis and Opensearch, and optimised Drupal with Postgres for performance and high scalability
Coordinated a multi-disciplinary team of a dozen engineers, QA, UX, designers, content writers and BA

Senior Developer > Dec 2016 to June 2017

Dennis Publishing > Magazine publisher, owner of The Week

Senior drupal developer within an agile team of 9 back-end developers across multiple product teams
Creating a new Drupal 8 platform for subscriptions services and magazine publishing

Senior Developer > June 2016 to March 2017

Trustroots (Volunteer) > A free open source hospitality exchange network built on trust.

Providing development support, feature planning and application debugging or Angular on a MEAN stack.
Implementation of OAuth SSO across multiple HospEx platforms to combine and bring the communities together

Senior Developer > May 2015 to November 2016

Eurostar > Trains from London to Paris

Creation of a new Drupal 8 component-based content site for Eurostar to drive
Contributor to the Drupal component initiative, and approach for headless content rendering
API development and integration with RESTful microservices
Integration with new headless event-driven booking engine
Responsible for development within an agile team of 6-8 developers

Senior Developer > July 2015 to July 2016

Warmshowers.org > A free worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists

Development and management of migration from Drupal 6 to 7

Senior Developer > August 2013 to January 2014

New Digital Partnership (Permanent) > A digital agency specialising in drupal

Senior developer responsible for development of Drupal-based projects and data migrations

Technical Developer > October 2012 to July 2013

Reading Room (Permanent) > A global digital agency

Responsible for all technical aspects of development on Drupal-based projects

Lead Developer > July 2010 to September 2012

Firecracker (Permanent) > A small, fast-paced digital agency

Responsible for all development based around CakePHP, Drupal and Wordpress

Key Technologies

Development > Php / Drupal, Python, Javascript / Node,

DevOps > Apache, Nginx, AWS, Docker, K8s, Terraform, Cloud Foundry, CircleCi, Jenkins

Data > MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Prometheus

Education

BA (architecture) > Oxford Brookes University > 2004 - 2008

3 A levels (history of art, design and technology, geography) > Eton College

13 GCSEs > Eton College

Personal achievements and interests

Twice inter-schools croquet champion with Eton College

British Canoeing certified White Water Kayak Coach

References available on request.

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