Charles de Freitas

Oxfordshire

DevOps Engineer - Automating all the things 🤖

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.

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.

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

9 GCSEs grade A-C, including Maths and English

Terraform Docker Git Ansible Kubernetes

Golang Java Python

Linux Networking Automation & Provisioning AWS GCP Bash

HTML CSS Javascript React GatsbyJS

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.

Work