Andrew Howden

Helping design and release large scale Kubernetes infrastructure^[1]

Debugging complex issues such as processes frozen in D state^[2]

Replace the CI/CD system "Jenkins CI" with "CircleCI"^[3]

Designed and implemented the infrastructure, monitoring and deployment definitions of several production e-commerce systems.

Transitioned the company from the monitoring service “New Relic" to the open source “Prometheus”.

Designed and implemented CI/CD for a variety of PHP, Node, Ansible and static HTML services in both BitBucket Pipelines and Travis CI

Designed and implemented the “incident response” process used for technical crisis management and resolution.

Collaborated in the detection and remediation of unauthorized access to a significant service.

Qualified as a “Certified Kubernetes Administrator”.

Helped with the organisational understanding of and adjustment to the “General Data Protection Legislation” (GDPR) as it applied to Germany.

Implemented a centralised, community managed knowledge base.

Evangelised the use, implementation and understanding of various kinds of diagnostic data such as time series, logs, traces and other system introspection tools.

Helped implement team analytics to determine the health, mood and stress levels of the organisation.

Developed or contributed to both helm chart and ansible roles for OSQuery and the OSQuery fleet management tool “Kolide Fleet”.

Organised and chaired development community meetings designed to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Helped facilitate an employee evaluation and growth framework.

Debugged countless complex production outages.

Collaborated in the maintenance, feature development, deployment and management of multi-million dollar e-commerce stores.

Primarily responsible for several major software migrations, site redesigns and feature developments such as the GAZ MAN redesign, Bing Lee checkout redesign and MageAudit.

Developed a structure for deploying applications onto Kubernetes continuously, including numerous safety checks.

Developed a structure for automatically checking the style and quality of code as part of the standard review process.

Developed provisioning tools that create and manage a Kubernetes cluster that tolerates failure of an application, machine or network partition.

Developed a template for a JavaScript module that can be loaded by dependency management systems asynchronously.

Contributed to open source projects such as Ecomdev_CheckItOut, Boilr and Modd.