Engagements¶

June 2022 - Present - Product Development – Last Bastion Network¶

New BastionLinux 36 release - updated, modernised, appealing, stack.
Developed our Red Hat Subscription Manager entitlements integrated with BastionLinux Subscriptions/Channels creating a compelling reason to cloud-purchase products shipped on the distribution.
New BastionLinux products into Alibaba Cloud Marketplace to increase market penetration.
AWS Cloud Marketplace new products and updates to encourage purchases.
New Kanban project management productivity platform and creator of ScrumOps methodology and tools to more widely promote it.
New office server and DCinaBox SME brand to more cost effective run workloads off cloud.
Wrote a lot of new Sphinx-based documentation, using git flows to formally release, and allowing serverless hosting.
Consolidation and retirement of a lot of technology debt to have a more effective and sustainable back office.

CentOS secure workstation developed, security sign-off, delivered to 200+ developers.
Instrumental in creating ‘Developer Champions’ outreach/forum.
Porting Central Unix Ansible for latest Red Hat Linux deployments across the Bank.
Hashicorp/Vault for POC/migrating secrets/X509 across software landscape to improve security posture.

Set up greenfield Python shop.
Set up enterprise CI/CD pipeline around Jenkins to achieve pipelines as code.
Brought documentation into the code - ensuring always current, and publishing into Confuence - readily discoverable.
Wrote loads of Ansible, integrated with Tower for easy deployment and governance.
Brought Data Science (Jupyter, Pandas) to ETL processes and ad-hoc storage analytics.
Delivered Risk/Patching/Storate/Recovery Attestation portal (Django) with one other developer.
Delivered Airflow workflow management infrastructure for sophisticated workload management.
Secure code warrior champion and security practices into code and coding practices.
Qualys vulnerability scanning, resolution, patching cycle management, curation, building, deployment of patched software.
Resourced six local and remote team members.

Effective AWS consulting for client Nib.
Deployed SuSE Linux SOE, orchestrated with Puppet, ensuring vendor support for the application.
This was the first public cloud implementation for a medical ‘System of Record’ in Australia.

Performed application development on AWS using serverless tools - APIGateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cloudformation.
Delivering applications driving a 49% increase in directly measurable incremental sales in December alone.
Introduced leading open source testing, CI/CD applications to institute and mature release management practices.

Steward more infrastructure solutions through AWS Seller Operations into Marketplace.
Engaging with IBM Bluemix/Softlayer and Microsoft Azure Marketplaces for product facilitation.
Business development and marketing.

Introduced DevOps to formally manage server infrastructure.
Set up RHEL7 SOE management platform, support and upgrade path from RHEL5.
Jenkins CI/CD into operations with OpenStack best-practice tools and procedures as next step in development maturity.

Took .NET/MSSQL platform into AWS Cloud (and potentially Azure) for flexibility in cloud costs.
Linux/Mono lift and shift of classical Microsoft toolchain/licensing saving money.
Introduced Cross-platform DevOps/Agile into organisation (Jenkins/CI, Chef/WinRM/Powershell).
Collaboration/mentoring/engagement with offshore development team.

Implement industry best practice into software code base.
Created and set up AWS dev/test and other critical DevOps infrastructure.
Created Chef infrastructure to stand up complex LAMP/Asterisk clustered telephony infrastructure.
Delivered flexible XML/XSLT tools to allow wholesale clients to configure callcentre solutions.