Farley Farley
Founder at Neon Surge Limited
New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
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Top SchoolFarley Farley is a founder and engineering-heavy leader based in New Plymouth, New Zealand, with 10 years of professional experience building and operating cloud-native, highly scalable platforms. He’s a DevOps/SRE and cloud architect certified across AWS, Google Cloud and Kubernetes, who designs multi-account AWS estates, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks. Farley has led migrations to Kubernetes with zero-downtime, engineered cost-optimised production setups (including creative 100% spot-instance architectures), and replatformed systems for companies like OraSure, RVillage and Exodus. As founder of Neon Surge Limited he trains and mentors distributed DevOps teams and prefers remote, hands-on leadership that still values meeting collaborators in person for longer contracts. He approaches problems end-to-end — from conception and testing to deployment, automation and scaling — and frequently open-sources or contributes back to tools and frameworks. An early tinkerer, he interned at Apple at 16 helping test early Airport hardware and was once invited to a Wozniak-hosted launch event, a detail that underscores his long-standing practical curiosity and hardware background.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Mt Sierra CollegeMt. San Antonio College
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Github Skills (200)
postgres10
hadoop10
scheduling10
automation10
gpt4all10
automl10
serverless10
influxdb10
k8s10
chuck10
hashicorp10
api10
audit10
solace10
prometheus10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
DevOps-Nirvana/Grafana-Dashboards
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
A variety of open-source Grafana dashboards typically for AWS and Kubernetes
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
grafana-dashboardsdevopsnginx-ingress-controllerdashboardsdocker
DevOps-Nirvana/aws-missing-tools
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Random tools I've written to make life easier using AWS, namely aws-choose-profile and aws-mfa-login
Contributions:3 reviews, 20 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 4 months
aws-clidevopsamazon-web-servicesassume-roleaws-iam
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