Barry Melbourne
Senior Platform Engineer
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarry Melbourne is a Senior Platform Engineer with over 20 years’ professional experience and active UK SC clearance, currently focused on delivering secure, highly available cloud-native platforms at Capgemini. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Ansible, Bash and Python with a strong background in enterprise Linux/Windows administration across AWS, GCP, Azure and vSphere. Barry has a proven record building production-grade container orchestration and middleware platforms for UK government and global corporate clients using Agile/Lean and DevOps practices. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent Kubernetes projects like kubespray and kops, where his work on kubelet cgroup drivers, Cert-Manager upgrades and CNI IPAM support helped improve cluster reliability and networking. Known for pragmatic automation and infrastructure-as-code design, he partners effectively with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of DevOps principles and continuous improvement. An information technology graduate from the University of Surrey, he blends long-term platform stewardship with recent, focused contributions to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
kubernetes10
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
go10
devops10
dockers10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
calico10
ansible10
cicd9
yaml9
containerd9
cnc9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 29 commits, 29 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Barry contributed to the configuration of the Kubernetes Operations (kOps) project by adding the `cgroupDriver` property to the Kubelet configuration and its conversion functions. The user also updated Terraform configuration and upgraded related dependencies to support the latest version. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up and managing the CI/CD pipeline.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 9 commits, 19 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration management within the Kubernetes ecosystem, specifically focused on the Kubespray project. Their commits involved upgrading and configuring the Cert-Manager component, removing support for an older operating system, setting the Docker cgroup driver, adding support for Calico CNI host-local IPAM plugin, and upgrading Cert-Manager. These contributions indicate a strong focus on cluster deployment, networking, and application management within Kubernetes.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
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