Andy Spiers
Senior Cloud Engineer (Platforms)
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Spiers is a Senior Cloud Engineer specialising in platform engineering, DevOps and cloud-native architecture with nine years focused on large-scale enterprise e-commerce systems. He combines hands‑on engineering and technical architecture skills—particularly AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and container orchestration—to design and operate resilient platforms that have weathered major retail peaks like Black Friday. As director of a London consultancy he led high-traffic container platforms for Argos and contributed to shared Kubernetes designs for Sainsbury’s, marrying operational rigor with automation. Based in Sheffield and trained in physics at Imperial College, he brings a data‑driven, metrics-focused approach to performance tuning, load‑balancing and observability. Notably, his background spans both legacy orchestration (Mesos/Marathon) and modern stacks, giving him a pragmatic perspective on migration and platform evolution.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Physics, BSc (Hons), Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (103)
test-kitchen10
reverse-proxy10
cloud-computing10
cost-optimization10
terraform10
security10
gcp10
governance10
rake10
serverless10
terraform-module10
optimization10
letsencrypt10
yaml10
golang10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JSainsburyPLC/terraform-aws-eks
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
A complete rework of the aws community module: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 2 months
eksterraform-modulesamazon-web-servicesaws-communityaws-eks
andyspiers/cloud-custodian
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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