Charles de Freitas

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DevOps Engineer - Automating all the things 🤖

Work

Lead DevOps Engineer RISQ Aug 2021Present
  1. Design and maintain reusable cloud network environments, for reuse across multiple trading desks.
  2. Project Oversight - oversee delivery of projects and alignment with organizational goals.
  3. AWS Cost optimisation and monitoring - Reviewing Cloud spend at an organisation level, communicating anomalies and recommendations to stakeholders.
  4. Migration of low latency applications to containerised deployments.
  5. Design and implement scalable zero trust access control system across: cloud environments, collocated servers and internal applications - SSO, AWS Session Manager, Cloudflare Access.
  6. Responsible for technical aspects of Remote gambling and software technical standards (RTS) Audit.
  7. Building a custom CI/CD framework to standardise pipelines for all areas of R&D
Software Developer Progressive Accessibility Solutions Apr 2019Present
  1. Developing a SaaS solution - incorporating a Java, Golang and React stack
  2. Designing and implementing CI/CD for all components of the SaaS solution
Technical Facilitator CyberFirst - NCSC Aug 2019Feb 2020
  1. Delivering training to 500+ 10-17 year olds, introducing them to a range of current cyber-security topics.
  2. Facilitating lab activities and acting as point of contact with guest speakers.

Education

Master in Science with Honours, Class I University of Birmingham Sep 2017Jun 2021
Computer Science:
  1. 76% Masters Project - An Extensible Framework For Portable And Distributed Packet Capture
  2. 87% Computer Security
  3. 84% Team Project (Game development)
  4. 74% Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
  5. 73% Computer Systems and Architecture
  6. 72% Computational Vision
  7. 71% Intelligent Robotics
A levels King Edward VI School Aug 2016Jun 2017
  1. A Computer Science
  2. A Mathematics
  3. B Further Maths
GCSEs King Edward VI School Aug 2015Jun 2016
9 GCSEs grade A-C, including Maths and English

Skills

DevOps — Advanced
Terraform Docker Git Ansible Kubernetes
Backend Development — Advanced
Golang Java Python
Systems — Advanced
Linux Networking Automation & Provisioning AWS GCP Bash
Web Development — Intermediate
HTML CSS Javascript React GatsbyJS

Volunteering

Organizer HackTheMidlands Jun 2019Present
  1. Helping to plan and organise an in person 24 hour hackathon with 250+ attendees.
  2. In 2020 moving online with over 700 attendees.
  3. Organisation of guest speakers across the extended online event.
  4. Tech lead for software developed to improve engagement at an online event.
  5. Company bookkeeping.
Software Developer Hackathons for Schools Aug 2020
  1. Designed and built a cloud based platform to provide easy access to developer tools.
  2. Gave a workshop on the basics of web scraping.
Software Developer Lockdone (University of Birmingham) Sep 2020
  1. Developed a suite of bots for Discord to improve management and engagement at an online event.