Alistair Hey
Senior Platform Engineer
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Hey is a Senior Platform Engineer with eight years building cloud-native, resilient platforms and a pragmatic obsession with minimizing waste from unnecessary rewrites. He combines hands-on DevOps and full-stack experience—contributing to well-known open-source projects like OpenFaaS and arkade—with leadership as co-founder of StackWizards and TechMids and as a current senior engineer at Civica. Comfortable across Kubernetes, CI/CD and lightweight faas runtimes, he focuses on sustainable, maintainable systems that scale for millions of transactions. A former chemist by training, he brings analytical rigor to infrastructure design and a knack for improving developer experience through automation and thoughtful refactors. Open to startup roles or contracts, he pairs community organizing with practical engineering to deliver long-lived solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemistry at University of BirminghamBromsgrove School
Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
dashboard10
k3s10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
containerd10
go10
openfaas10
helm10
angularjs10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/openfaas-cloud
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
The Multi-user OpenFaaS Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 54 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alistair made several contributions to the OpenFaaS Cloud dashboard, including updating links, implementing user access restrictions, and adding function logs. They modified both frontend (React) and backend (Node.js) code, enhancing user interface and authentication logic. Furthermore, they introduced features to enhance the dashboard's usability, and refactored code to improve overall maintainability and address technical debt.
openfaascicdmulti-userfaaskubernetes
alexellis/k3sup
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 19 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily focused on improving the k3sup project by adding new features and fixing bugs related to application installations and deployments. They implemented functionality for installing and configuring various applications such as nginx-ingress, OpenFaaS ingress, and Kubernetes dashboard. Further contributions include improvements to the docker-registry-ingress app, and updates to core dependencies and configurations. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding the capabilities and improving the user experience of the k3sup tool.
bootstrapk3ssshkubernetesraspberry-pi
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