Continuous Integration and Automation
Drawing on the strategic insights and leadership, I bring over five years of specialized CI/CD and automation expertise, underpinned by 35 years of IT experience across mainframes, cloud-native, and AI-driven environments.
In my recent roles, I’ve architected and delivered industrial-strength continuous integration pipelines using Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. I’ve scripted extensive automation in Python and Bash, and orchestrated deployments with Jenkins and Rundeck to ensure consistent, repeatable releases across multiple websites and international development environments. Rigorous automated testing suites—Behat, Cucumber with Gherkin, SimpleTest, PHPUnit, Selenium, JMeter, and Apache Benchmark—have validated every change, driving code quality and accelerating time-to-market.
My platform expertise spans Docker containerization, AWS CloudFormation and CLI, Terraform provisioning, and Kubernetes orchestration. By integrating these tools, I’ve reduced environment spin-up times by over 60%, slashed deployment failures, and increased team velocity through self-service infrastructure. I champion infrastructure-as-code and immutable deployments to strengthen security, reliability, and cost optimisation—pillars central to my agile leadership philosophy.
One highlight was creating Danielle-CLI for LexisNexis: a bespoke command-line interface that automated document ingestion, indexing, and environment provisioning, delivering a tenfold improvement in productivity for data-driven teams.
I thrive in roles where continuous delivery, strategic development, and solution architecture intersect. Recruiters seeking a hands-on technology leader who blends governance with execution—and who embeds innovation into every workflow—will find my track record compelling. For detailed case studies, architectural frameworks, and client successes, explore my portfolio. I’m actively open to long-term managerial positions that leverage my CI/CD mastery, automation acumen, and systems-architecture vision.