I’m an engineer working on security and cloud-native platforms. These days that means distributed systems for a national defence organisation, the kind of cloud-native infrastructure that runs in air-gapped and other critical environments. Most of my time goes to Kubernetes and Go.

Before that, I was a principal engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, where I led development of two large-scale distributed platforms on Kubernetes, one for data and one for conventional machine learning, with multi-cloud abstractions and developer tooling in Go so teams could self-serve through a CLI, SDK, API, and portal.

Earlier, I worked at HashiCorp on Terraform, mostly around the plugin ecosystem and features like S3-native state locking, ephemeral resources, and plugin testing. Before that, I built distributed systems and platforms at a handful of startups and companies.

My focus is simplicity in software, systems, and delivery by minimizing waste and optimizing for joy. Much of my spare time goes into open source, maintaining projects across the Terraform and Kubernetes ecosystems. That work is how I ended up as Tech Lead at CNCF TAG Infrastructure.

Working in the open is the part I enjoy most: reviewing other people’s code, back and forth about design in public, and learning from maintainers who know far more than I do.