Charles de Freitas
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DevOps Engineer - Automating all the things 🤖
Work
- AWS Cost optimisation and monitoring.
- Migration of low latency applications to containerised (OCI format) deployments.
- Automated access control across hybrid cloud and collocated servers. Using Ansible to configure role based access control, during the creation of machine images and against live systems.
- Immutable infrastructure approach to security updates - Using Packer for AWS AMI generation of a standardized Golden AMI
- Building an auto scaling CI/CD environment using Terraform to provision: infrastructure, networking and access policies. Templating AMIs for executing Builds with specific tool chains.
- Developing a SaaS solution - incorporating a Java, Golang and React stack
- Designing and implementing CI/CD for all components of the SaaS solution
- Delivering training to 500+ 10-17 year olds, introducing them to a range of current cyber-security topics.
- Facilitating lab activities and acting as point of contact with guest speakers.
Education
Computer Science:
- 76% Masters Project - An Extensible Framework For Portable And Distributed Packet Capture
- 87% Computer Security
- 84% Team Project (Game development)
- 74% Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
- 73% Computer Systems and Architecture
- 72% Computational Vision
- 71% Intelligent Robotics
- A Computer Science
- A Mathematics
- B Further Maths
9 GCSEs grade A-C, including Maths and English
Skills
Terraform
Docker
Git
Ansible
Kubernetes
Golang
Java
Python
Linux
Networking
Automation & Provisioning
AWS
GCP
Bash
HTML
CSS
Javascript
React
GatsbyJS
Volunteering
- Helping to plan and organise an in person 24 hour hackathon with 250+ attendees.
- In 2020 moving online with over 700 attendees.
- Organisation of guest speakers across the extended online event.
- Tech lead for software developed to improve engagement at an online event.
- Company bookkeeping.
- Designed and built a cloud based platform to provide easy access to developer tools.
- Gave a workshop on the basics of web scraping.
- Developed a suite of bots for Discord to improve management and engagement at an online event.