Alex Edwards

Adopting and embracing the new product operational model

• Led a strategic initiative to adopt a new internal platform engineering strategy, leveraging deep domain expertise and technical leadership to define reusable data processing modules and establish a pragmatic development approach across stakeholders. Proactively addressed ambiguity and drove adoption through targeted documentation and RFCs, establishing a foundation for improved data consistency and operational efficiency.

DevSecOps enablement

• Championed DevOps and SecOps best practices across my career, proactively collaborating with diverse teams to resolve critical CI/CD and infrastructure challenges, contributing to a culture of shared expertise and ensuring the long-term reliability and security of multiple systems.

System Upgrade

• Led a complex, multi-team upgrade of critical production dependencies, mitigating risks through thorough assessment and detailed planning, resulting in a smooth transition and increased operational efficiency while identifying and resolving critical post-deployment issues.

• Influenced organizational decisions and established clear understanding for stakeholder buy-in during ambiguous operating model changes.
• Accelerated chosen platform adoption via foundational knowledge sharing, clear objectives, and practical demonstrations.
• Introduced new architecture and infrastructure via industry-standard practices, implementing and delivering successfully to millions of users.
• Developed and delivered training materials and demonstrations on Linux, DevOps, and Cloud Security.
• Fostered a culture of shared expertise and collaboration across multiple organiszation teams.

• Maintained and improved core infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, and vulnerabilities, resulting in higher overall viability, less technical debt, and overall cost.
• Subject and domain expert for a bespoke testing framework across multiple teams and micro-frontends. Owned the complexity within, to better technical debt and an engineer's experience.
• Participation in multiple cross-team initiatives in design ideation, presentations, security, and DevOps.

• Agile development with an international client on an Education-based technology solution.
• Delivering secure API-based workflows for licensing and distributing music.
• On-site support to critical logistics and client demonstrations.

• Led on the development of a website for a local company to create an engaging presence in the market.
• Coordinated the project plan and scope to meet agreed milestones and targets within time and budgetary constraints.

• Created and maintained a database-driven website based for a Media Exhibition using PHP and MySQL.