Alec Pinson
Cloud Platform Engineer
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlec Pinson is a Cloud Platform Engineer with over a decade of hands-on IT experience and eight years focused on cloud and platform roles, specializing in Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD toolchains. He has designed and migrated complex Azure landing zones, containerised and deployed hundreds of production applications to Kubernetes, and built self-service onboarding and tooling platforms that moved teams from on-prem to cloud-native workflows. Alec routinely implements end-to-end CI/CD ecosystems (Jenkins, GitLab/GitHub, SonarQube, Grafana, Prometheus, Nexus) and has automated operational tasks—such as firewall changes—using Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure Firewall and ServiceNow. He contributed practical improvements to a popular terraform-github-actions repo by extending pre-Terraform command execution and env var support, streamlining workflows for other users. Known for quick learning and sustained delivery under pressure, he combines deep infrastructure and database roots (Oracle/Delphix) with a knack for pragmatic automation and developer-focused tooling.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
sh10
terraformer10
github-ci10
script10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
terraform10
scripting10
bash9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dflook/terraform-github-actions
May 2021 - May 2021
GitHub actions for terraform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the GitHub Actions workflow for the `terraform-github-actions` repository. They added functionality to execute shell commands and environment variables before Terraform runs, and corrected an operator used in the process. Their work involved directly modifying the `actions.sh` script to accommodate flexible command execution and environment variable usage, effectively streamlining the Terraform workflow.
terraform
alec-pinson/ip-whitelister
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Login with AzureAD account and whitelist your IP against Cloud resources for 24 hours
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 48 commits in 1 month
accountwhitelistcloud-resourcesazureazuread
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