Alex Monk
System Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Monk is a System Development Engineer with 15 years’ experience building reliable, cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, currently focused at AWS in London. He has a strong SRE background from roles at GDS and the Cabinet Office where he led Reliability Engineering teams and shipped automation in Golang, Python and Concourse. Early hands-on experience includes Met Office cloud ops and a sustained involvement with Wikimedia as a volunteer and contractor integrating VisualEditor and running developer-facing infrastructure. Comfortable bridging developer and ops concerns, he combines public-sector resilience requirements with commercial-scale cloud practices and a First Class Computer Science degree from the University of Kent. A practical tool-builder by habit, he’s often the team’s go-to for cross-account AWS scripting and migration work that quietly keeps services secure and auditable.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The Weald community schoolMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at The College of Richard CollyerBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First Class at University of Kent
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Github Skills (200)
visual-editor10
html-editor10
reliability-engineering10
puppet10
phabricator10
svn10
mediawiki-extension10
wikitext10
php10
observe10
parsoid10
gerrit10
terraform10
entrypoint10
cloud-foundry10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/verify-cluster-config
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Verify GSP cluster and namespace configuration
Contributions:2 reviews, 93 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 9 months
gspnamespaceverifykubernetescluster
alphagov/verify-metadata-controller
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Custom resource and controller for generating and signing SAML metadata
Contributions:1 review, 52 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 3 months
saml-metadataverify
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