Ashley Poole
Senior Engineering Manager at National Grid
Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Poole is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building resilient platforms and scaling SRE and engineering teams across sectors from fintech to utilities. Currently leading engineering at National Grid after progressive leadership roles at Boomin, Mention Me and Protolabs, Ashley blends operational rigor with people-first management to deliver reliable, production-grade services. A practical DevOps and SRE advocate, they have contributed to well-known incident response tooling (Monzo/response), integrating alerting and lifecycle automations that improve visibility and on-call workflows. Based in Wolverhampton, Ashley is also an active community organiser and speaker, co-running Shropshire DevNet, which reflects a commitment to knowledge-sharing beyond day-to-day delivery. Known for turning incident learnings into lasting engineering improvements, they pair deep technical empathy with a track record of elevating team performance.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Computing and Multimedia, BTEC Computing and Multimedia at Wolverhampton CollegeHNC Computing, HNC Computing at Walsall College
English
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Github Skills (21)
python10
configuration-management10
incident-response10
django9
devops9
slack9
automations8
database-management8
automation8
postgresql8
pagerduty7
sh6
script6
shell6
azure6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
monzo/response
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Monzo's real-time incident response and reporting tool ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ashley contributed to the project by implementing features related to incident management and operational settings. They added a reminder to close incidents after a certain timeframe, improving incident lifecycle management. Furthermore, the user added status indicators to Slack headlines, enhancing incident visibility. They also made database configurations configurable for production environments and integrated PagerDuty, indicating a focus on deployment and incident alerting.
incident-managementincident-responsereportingreporting-toolslack-bot
AshleyPoole/ssllabs-api-wrapper
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
.NET Wrapper For Qualys SSL Labs Assessment API's
Contributions:7 releases, 112 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
apidotnetsslqualysapi-s
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