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Platform Engineer

I am availble for consulting work. My areas of expertise when it comes to consulting are:

  • Cloud Infrastructure Auditting
  • Audits of your infrastructure are generally based on any concerns you have. They range from cost analysis, performance efficiency, security posture and reliability through use of chaos engineering.
  • System Observability Design
  • Audits and helps you have more coverage in observability, ensuring you have the correct alarms on vital metrics for your service. Helps curate incident response plans. Can also help you design effective dashboards, runbooks, traceability and on-call plan.
  • CI/CD Pipeline Design & Process Automation
  • Assisting the building of your code build and code release plans. Overall increasing time to release and developer productivity. Also can assist with general process automation through scripting.
  • Software Refactoring
  • A lot of software isn't as optimized for the cloud as one hopes. I can help you refactor your services to ensure they're efficient programatically, optimized and resillient to hardware faults.

Skills I Focus On

Cloud Architecture100%
CI/CD Pipelines90%
Scripting & Automation 75%
Monitoring & Observability 80%
Backend Development90%
Cloud & Network Security 55%

Resume

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Summary

As a professional Platform Engineer, I specialize in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and efficient infrastructure that serves as the backbone for software applications. My expertise lies in:

  • Cloud technologies
  • Automation
  • Software Development

I ensure high availability, performance, and security across the entire technology stack. I'm passionate about creating robust platforms that empower developers to deliver innovative solutions with speed and reliability.


Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Software Engineering
2014 - 2022

Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia

Masters of Information Technology

Cyber Security & Networks
2022 - In progress

Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia

Professional Experience

Lead DevOps Engineer

July 2023 - Present

HomHero, Gold Coast, Australia

  • Redesigned and rebuilt alot of services to be more resillient, efficient and cost effective
  • Containerized workloads allowing them to be better orchestrated as well as streamlined the build and release process
  • Responsible for the entire organization observability, security and incident response of its services

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

October 2022 - July 2023

Evidence Disclosure Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  • Responsible for consulting with government clients on matters of system security and observability
  • Designed and efficiently migrated existing workloads with no downtime to a securer network architecture
  • Implemented alot of SRE practices particularily on the observability of the system

Senior DevOps Engineer

November 2021 - October 20202

Dubber Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia

  • Leading a project which was performing migrations of services in Kubernetes
  • Built a couple of Kubernetes clusters in different regions globally and build out appropriate Helm charts for its services
  • Assisted with the development of a new greenfield service

DevOps, Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer

May 2015 - November 2021

Multiple positions, see LinkedIn

Contact

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Location

Brisbane, QLD

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Email Me

me@lpritchard.com

Call Me

+61 420 360 460