Adrian Farnell
Lead Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdrian Farnell is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of cloud, DevOps and automation experience, currently shaping cloud-native strategy and delivery at Lloyds Banking Group. He blends hands-on skills in Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and containerisation with strong automation expertise using Terraform, PowerShell and CI/CD pipelines. Adrian has led cross-functional teams, secured £650K funding for cloud initiatives, and delivered measurable operational improvements such as a 20% reduction in onboarding time. He has a track record of migrating and rationalising infrastructure to reduce costs—once saving £350K annually by moving workloads on-premise—and advises on architecture in governance forums. An effective coach and teacher, he co-authored and ran an eight-week program to train branch staff as IT engineers, reflecting his ability to translate technical strategy into people-focused outcomes. With a background stretching from large bank private clouds to early web retail systems, he combines deep legacy systems knowledge with modern cloud-native practice.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Chemistry, BSc, Chemistry at University of York
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
r3adm3/multiservice
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:160 commits, 38 PRs, 150 pushes in 3 years 1 month
r3adm3/powershellSnippets
Oct 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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