Matthew.Cle.gg

I am a CI/CD Engineer

Over 17 years of industry experience, developing with client, server and infrastructure technologies.

Skilled in automation cloud orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible etc), server-side technologies (GoLang, Python, PHP) & client front-end languages (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). I have experience creating and hosting websites using complex math & basic logic for most common content management systems. My previous work experience includes projects with numerous digital agencies, startups and corporations.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Old Street, London
Designed & built a cross-regional disaster recovery capability in GCP by: bringing all resources under Terraform management, automating/consolidating of standalone scripts, building a passive cluster in a secondary region and cleanly deploying applications to the new region. Designed, developed, and implemented software integrations based on user feedback. Troubleshooted production issues and coordinated with the development team to streamline code deployment. Applied cloud computing skills to deploy upgrades and fixes. Implemented automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines). Automated re-encryption process of large amounts of sensitive data. Conducted systems tests for security, performance, and availability. Analysed code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects. Optimised the company’s computing architecture. Assisted in acquiring information security standards ISO27001. Made Open Source Contributions to update the Terraform provider for Mozilla SOPS to write files using KMS. I have provided multiple training sessions for all of engineering. One on Rebasing practices in Git and another on migration of GCP resources into Terraform.

Site Reliability Engineer

Munich, Germany
Responsible for building and maintaining cloud based infrastructure for SAAS platform used by SME customers. Responsible for automating everything from A to Z using Terraform, Ansible, AWS lambda functions, etc. I was responsible for supporting a team of SREs in monitoring the platform using logs, metrics, tracing, amongst other observability stacks such as ELK and NewRelic. I advised product teams on topics such as automation and architecture. I aimed to enhance teams in regards to communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and infrastructure stakeholders in the software delivery lifecycle. While at Personio I migrated their web services into Kubernetes in AWS using GitLab. I created and managed a GitLab service in an automated fashion. I used a GitLab instance to provision Kubernetes environments in AWS. I migrated all microservices to Kubernetes services in AWS environment using direct connect. I aimed to improve their existing platform concerning scalability, deployments and reliability so they require less maintenance in the future. I supported the internal team on operations topics regarding deployment & automation. I provided training sessions for keen developers to attend regarding Docker & Kubernetes.