Details of the implementation are outlined in the following articles:

• From zero to production in sixty minutes: Building a cloud platform for product development

• Modernisation of 1000+ websites with zero downtime using Google Cloud

After being acqui-hired from a major tech company by the CTO, the platform engineering team had only been around a few months in the company when I joined them as a cloud platform engineer. I was motivated to learn from experts in the field and deepen my knowledge of cloud computing and architecture. I took this role with little prior experience aside from passing the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam and exploring Google Cloud Platform on my own.

I rapidly gained a deep understanding of platform engineering and DevOps best practices from the ground up through hands-on implementation of the company’s first Google Cloud environment and a further Google Cloud certification (Professional Cloud Architect). Below are some of my key accomplishments:

• Led the modernisation and migration of 1400 customer-facing websites including gsk.com to GCP resulting in zero downtime and 64% increase in site performance

• Architected and developed reusable cloud infrastructure solutions relating to natural language processing, machine learning, security, storage, compute, identity and access such as described in my blog

• Ran ideation workshops and established a user-focused approach to platform, developed OKRs focusing on user outcomes

• Created easy to understand data visualisation dashboards to showcase CI/CD performance, platform spend, product uptime and security status to stakeholders and senior leaders

• Built 7 partnerships across the company to scale the platform and onboarded the teams by providing starter projects, necessary infrastructure, permissions and billing set up