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Hi! I’m Alex, and I have spent my career creating, automating, architecting, supporting, and securing multi-environment developer platforms, infrastructure,
and services at global scale - primarily in digital streaming - in and across both public and private clouds.
When I'm not working, you can usually find me at the gym, thru-hiking, or walking my Pharaoh Hound with my wife.
Feel free to reach out about anything, I’m always happy to chat!
Even if nobody ever comes here, I learn best when trying to explain things to others. This is my shoddy attempt to do that.
This experiment is not really a blog, more a place to document notes. Topics will be varied, but will revolve mainly around tech, finance/investing,
and possibly a little bit of fitness.
Employment History
NBCUniversal/Sky
Snr. Platform Engineer
Global Pipeline and Tooling
2025 - present
After the acquisition of Sky by NBCUniversal/Comcast, due to my CI/CD and PR automation exposure in my previous posting,
I put myself forward to transfer into the Global Pipeline and Tooling team, who required an additional engineer.
Here, we are responsible for the global CI/CD pipelines and tooling for all the propositions across the globe
that are used to deploy production ready Kubernetes clusters to application hosting teams.
More to follow on this position as I find my feet.
NBCUniversal/Sky
Snr. Site Reliability Engineer
Cloud Engineering Platform
2022 - 2025
Working in the Cloud Engineering Platform team we worked on administering AWS and GCP accounts and networking
on a global scale, covering multi-region (USA, SA, EU), multi-proposition (Peacock, Showtime, ShowMax, NowTV),
and multi-organisation (Sky, NBCU, and 3rd party suppliers).
Alongside account vend, we were also responsible for administering cloud governance, including; cloud access, services, guardrails, asset information,
cloud logging, and egress as a service. We achieved this by leveraging Terraform, Terragrunt, CI/CD, PR Automation, and
internal tooling.
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group
DevOps Engineer
E-Commerce Hybrid Infrastructure Automation
2020 - 2022
Whilst working in the E-Commerce Hybrid Infrastructure Automation team, we specialised in managing and developing infrastructure automation for the E-Commerce department across both vSphere and AWS environments. My role involved ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and reliability for critical infrastructure services.
Sky Group
Associate/Site Reliability Engineer
Nimbus
2016 - 2020
As an SRE on the Nimbus team, we developed, maintained, and supported (24/7 oncall) Sky's multiple internal, private cloud, open-source CloudFoundry deployments and services. We hosted over 1500 applications, spanning over 40 teams, with hundreds of users. We also maintained a large legacy platform that went through a series of decommissioning.