Hi, I'm
Aspiring cloud Engineer — transitioning from 18 years in operations to building on AWS.
About Me
I've spent 18 years as a General Manager, leading teams, solving complex operational problems, and making decisions under pressure. That career gave me something that's hard to teach — resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to figure things out independently.
Over the past year I've been learning AWS to build a stock control system from the ground up. What started as a practical project turned into a genuine passion. I found myself going deeper and deeper into cloud architecture, automation, and AI — and realising this is the career I want to build.
I bring an unusual combination to the table: the technical curiosity of someone who fell in love with cloud engineering, and the real-world experience of someone who has managed people, budgets, and operations at scale for nearly two decades. I'm hungry to grow fast and contribute from day one.
Skills
I work across the full cloud engineering stack — from designing resilient AWS architectures to automating deployments and keeping systems observable and secure.
Projects
Real-world cloud engineering projects — each one built from scratch, deployed on AWS, and available to view on GitHub.
IoT vessel monitoring platform combining Raspberry Pi 5 edge computing (AWS IoT Greengrass) with serverless cloud. Real-time collision avoidance (CPA/TCPA, COLREGS), predictive engine maintenance via FFT vibration analysis, offline-first architecture, and 24 formal safety properties verified with property-based testing. 1,633 tests across 70 files. Full system cost-optimised to <£2/month.
This portfolio site — hosted on S3, delivered via CloudFront, with a serverless visitor counter powered by API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB. Contact form sends emails via SES.
Automated deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions with OIDC identity federation — no stored access keys. Pushes to main auto-deploy to S3 and invalidate CloudFront.
Full CloudFormation template defining the entire portfolio infrastructure — S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and IAM roles with least-privilege policies.
Contact
Whether you have a role in mind, a project to discuss, or just want to connect — my inbox is open.