Summary
Dan Farmer is a Site Reliability Engineer in London who blends front-line hosting and technical account leadership with cloud-native modernization across AWS, OpenStack and Google Cloud. He has architected and operated large-scale infrastructure (25k CPU, 180TiB RAM) and led SRE and DevOps programs that cut cost-per-visitor by 85% and build/deploy times by 75% through containerization and CI/CD across 70+ projects. At Rackspace he grew Asia accounts from $2.9M to $11.6M while serving as a C-level technical lead, and at Charlotte Tilbury he ran ecommerce reliability, security and upskilling for 25+ engineers. Now at Google he focuses on application modernization, observability and scalable operations, pairing consultancy-style guidance with hands-on implementation. Trained as a physicist at Imperial College, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic cost, performance and reliability trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Imperial College London