Andrew Holt
Head Of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Holt is a senior platform engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure for both major financial institutions and high-growth SaaS companies. Currently Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering at Fexco, he has a track record of delivering multi-site Kubernetes architectures, zero-trust security (including eBPF/Cilium), and platforms that support millions of transactions with enterprise-grade reliability. He led container platform transformations at Barclays that achieved Tier 1 uptime for payment systems and drove major cost and efficiency gains through virtualization and automation. At startups like Utmost and Beeline he architected multi-region, multi-tenant SaaS platforms from the ground up, cut AWS costs significantly, and introduced self-service capabilities for enterprise customers. A recognized speaker and CNCF contributor, he blends hands-on IaC, GitOps, and observability work with strategic M&A integrations and team development. Notably, he pairs deep financial-services reliability experience with a startup mindset that prioritizes cost-efficiency and rapid, secure scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (60)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
observability10
ebpf10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
networking10
bpf10
security10
kernel10
k8s10
rds9
graph8
terraform7
aurora7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acholt-cookbooks/mediawiki_backup
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 5 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
cookbooksslssl-certificatescertificatesdeploys
acholt-cookbooks/chef-server-backup
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 7 months
cookbookchef-serverstandalonemanaged-by-terraformchef
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