Summary
Andrew Wilde is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of focused DevOps and build-engineering experience, specialising in Java/J2EE ecosystems while bringing earlier C++ and ADA roots from defence projects. He has led CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and observability initiatives across financial and consumer platforms, implementing Jenkins, Terraform/Pulumi, Prometheus/Grafana, Vault and Kubernetes to modernise delivery pipelines and runtime operations. His background in defence instilled rigorous software quality and release discipline, which he combines with a pragmatic adoption of lightweight, open-source tooling. Notable achievements include migrating teams to Azure DevOps and onboarding many users to Git, and architecting HA Postgres and service-mesh patterns at scale. Comfortable across Linux administration, containers and virtualization, he frequently evaluates and contributes to open-source tooling to streamline developer workflows. Based in Southampton, he pairs rigorous academic training (PhD in Computational Mechanics) with hands-on operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc Hons, Mathematical Physics, First, B. Sc Hons, Mathematical Physics, First at University of Liverpool
Ph.D., Computational Mechanics, Ph.D., Computational Mechanics at University of Wales
M.Sc, Engineering Mathematics, M.Sc, Engineering Mathematics at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
English, German, Spanish