Chris Nash
My name is Chris Nash. I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer for Float.com.
I read books, drink wine, watch movies.... And fight fires 🔥
I also 💖 making terrible HTML5 Games:
👆 Spacebar Challenge👾 Project Tycho (Github Gameoff 2020)
Resume
Employment History
2021 - : Senior DevOps Engineer @ Float
2019 - 2020: Senior SRE @ Wifinity (UK ISP)
2015 - 2019: CTO @ moltin (Ecommerce API)
2014 - 2019: Lead Tech (Infra.) @ moltin
2014: Infrastructure Engineer @ reciteme
2012 - 2014: Software Engineer @ Daykin & Storey
2011 - 2013: *Software Engineer @ Azure
2010 - 2011: Software Engineer @ FOG.com
Experience
On-call experience rotating over 6 years. Opsgenie, Pagerduty.
Github Actions, Jenkins, Portus, Buddy, Terraform, and CodeClimate
Lots of AWS, some GCP and a sprinkle of Azure.
Prometheus, Datadog, Athena, Cloudwatch, Grafana, Linkerd (service mesh) and various tracing systems and logging setups.
Rancher (Cattle), EKS, GKE.
About me
I understand the importance of SLI's/SLO's and SLA's and truly believe they're the path to happiness.
I've spent a lot of time in many different types of companies. I've been in places when companies don't translate business objectives into their software organisation. And the inverse where the business is led by decisions in software.
I feel comfortable with my skills, (I know what i'm good at and not) and I know when to ask for help.
I've fought some really hot fires in my time. I know how a level head can mean the difference between minutes and hours for resolutions.
I love a good postmortem! (Software obviously)
I have a sixth sense for infrastructure and how it should come together.
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In my personal life I love to laugh. I love good food and wine. I love the sea and spend as much time as I can in it.
I run, I garden and I drink bourbon.
I have a family, and we are working hard to put ourselves in a green space where we can live in nature and enjoy our lives.
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