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I'm a freelance consultant Platform Engineer, DevSecOps Practitioner, Cloud Architect, and run my own company: Cloud Cauldron Limited.
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I've currently working with Mesh-AI as a Lead Consultant Platform Engineer.
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In my youth, I worked at Burger King, washed oil rigs so they could be sold, loaded nuclear and non-nuclear munitions onto F-111 and F-16 aircraft in the US Air Force, worked as a mechanic and then a roofer. Now, I have more than 25 years experience in the IT industry. I've been a developer, a DBA, a system administrator, a release engineer, an infrastructure manager, a NOC engineer, and both a cloud engineer and DevSecOps engineer, and as my industry's evolved, a platform engineer.
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I'm an expert in public clouds like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, infrastructure as code, container building and orchestration, database administration, observability, and software delivery pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
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Outside of tech, amonst other things, I'm a tree hugging hippy, a keen photographer, an environmentalist (with an Open University Bachelor of Science in "Environmental Management and Technology"), an allotment gardener, a charity trustee, and an occasional Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, and PC gamer.
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📩 Feel free to reach me at chris@cloudcauldron.io.
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Know, O Prince,
That between the years when the oceans drank Microsoft DOS and the gleaming Windows,
and the rise of "The Cloud", there was an Age undreamed of, when shining servers lay
spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Debian, FreeBSD,
Slackware, AIX, Solaris with its dark-haired sales women and server towers of
spider-haunted mystery, SuSE with its chivalry, Caldera that bordered the pastoral
lands of SCO, OpenBSD with its shadow-guarded passwords, RedHat whose Sys Admins wore
steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Mac OS, reigning
supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Chris the Texan, little-haired, sullen-eyed,
MacBook in hand, a builder, a programmer, a sys-admin, a DevSecOps engineer, with
gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled server rooms of the
earth under his sandled feet.
-- By me - with apologies to Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
-- from "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
