Andrew Hughes-Onslow

Technical Lead, Platform Engineer and Software Engineer

e: [email protected]

w: http://hughes-onslow.com

GitHub: https://github.com/kalpaitch

LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/hughesonslow/

Highly motivated and independent platform & software engineer with over 15 years of experience leading and influencing technical teams across public and private sector projects, holding security clearance. Expertise in Drupal/PHP, Python, and Node/JS software development. Proficient with Docker, ECS, and infrastructure as code using Terraform and CloudFormation. Experienced in CI/CD pipeline automation and microservice architecture design.

Key Skills

Languages & Frameworks: PHP/Drupal, Python, JavaScript/Node

DevOps Tools: Docker, AWS + CloudFormation, Hashicorp + Terraform, Ansible, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Typesense

Other Skills: Microservice architecture, CI/CD pipeline creation, IaC, Container management, Serverless systems

Employment

Devops Engineer > December 2023 to present

CACI > Government Digital Service > One Login programme

• SRE responsible for security and stability of identity and verification service
• Managed containerised and serverless infrastructure with CloudFormation
• Oversaw container management with Docker for ECS applications and CI/test stacks
• Advocated for continuous deployment standards using GitHub Actions and CodePipeline
• Monitored service performance and reliability with CloudWatch, Splunk, and Dynatrace

Technical Architect > March 2022 to November 2023

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

• Strategised and architected move from GovUK PaaS to containerised services on AWS
• Led and mentored a new engineering team to BAU support
• Coordinated with SOC, accessibility, content, and other teams for GovUK Service Standard compliance
• Conducted high-level roadmapping and requirement gathering with non-technical stakeholders
• Rolled out continuous delivery for enhanced delivery speed and reliability

Lead Engineer (part-time) > 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 CloudFormation
• 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 CloudWatch and Grafana

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 Engineer > 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

Developer > July 2010 to September 2012

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

• Responsible for all development based around CakePHP, Drupal and Wordpress

Education

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

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

13 GCSEs > Eton College