Adam Deacon
Principal DevOps Engineer at University of Cambridge
Calne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAdam Deacon is a Principal DevOps Engineer with over eight years of focused experience delivering resilient infrastructure and operational excellence across finance, data science, and academic environments. Currently leading DevOps at the University of Cambridge, he combines deep Linux and networking expertise—backed by RHCE and CCNA certifications—with hands-on leadership developed from previous roles as Head of Managed Services and IT Manager. His background spans startups to enterprise, including building and running managed services at Mango Solutions and senior sysadmin roles in payments, showing a knack for securing and scaling production systems. Adam is equally comfortable in technical and managerial capacities, having held multiple director-level posts earlier in his career, which gives him uncommon fluency in translating business needs into operational roadmaps. Based in Calne, England, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to automation and service reliability, often applying lessons from high-availability payments and research infrastructure to new challenges.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
luhn10
build-time9
gcp9
credit-card9
aws9
compliance9
azure8
terraform8
validation8
static-analysis8
r8
aws-security8
devops8
kubernetes7
azure-security7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adamjdeacon/checkLuhn
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Checks if a number is valid per the luhn algorithm
Contributions:40 commits, 18 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 3 months
luhn-algorithmluhnvalidchecksis-valid
adamjdeacon/silver_deps
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
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