Alistair Mackay
Online Support Specialist Mentor at Firefly IT Consulting Ltd
Oxted, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Mackay is an experienced AWS DevOps and architecture contractor with over 25 years in IT and eight years focused on cloud-native tooling, Kubernetes, and automation. He mentors and supports learners at KodeKloud while actively maintaining popular community repos, contributing infrastructure and automation for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator course and upgrading the well-known "Kubernetes the Hard Way" materials for modern platforms including Apple Silicon. As a hands-on consultant he has led large migrations to EKS and AWS, rebuilt CI/CD toolchains, and delivered zero-downtime database and platform moves for enterprise clients like Reed Exhibitions and HMRC. Comfortable both architecting solutions and writing the scripts that make them reproducible, he blends deep operational experience with developer-focused mentoring. Outside of client work he runs his own consultancy, preferring contract roles (outside IR35) that leverage his pragmatic automation and observability expertise.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The Nelson Thomlinson SchoolRoyal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Greek
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
scripting10
bash10
networking10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
vagrant10
devops10
apple-silicon9
ubuntu9
aws9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mmumshad/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Vagrant on Local Machine. No scripts.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:75 commits, 38 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alistair focused on upgrading the Kubernetes the hard way tutorial to version 1.24, updating various configuration files, and adjusting resource allocations. They made significant changes to the `Vagrantfile`, including using Ubuntu 22.04 and adapting to the removal of Docker in the setup. Additionally, the user implemented adjustments to the Apple Silicon build process.
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kodekloudhub/certified-kubernetes-administrator-course
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator - CKA Course
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 69 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributed to the infrastructure and automation aspects of the Kubernetes course materials. Their work focused on creating and modifying scripts for setting up and configuring Kubernetes clusters on various platforms, including Apple Silicon and AWS. They implemented automation using shell scripts to streamline the deployment and management of Kubernetes components, including networking and control plane configuration. The user demonstrated expertise in using tools like `kubeadm`, `kubectl`, and `Terraform` to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters.
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