Summary
Bob Clarke is a DevOps and platform engineering lead based in London with over two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior DevOps roles building resilient, automated platforms for major financial and advertising organisations. He specialises in cloud-native infrastructure—Kubernetes, Terraform and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)—and has led large migrations and bespoke CI/CD/runtime automation for teams at dentsu, HSBC and Lloyds. Bob excels at turning legacy enterprise stacks (WebSphere, RMDS) into modern, automated pipelines and environments, and has repeatedly delivered on high-stakes projects requiring performance tuning, DR, and security integration. He pairs deep systems-level expertise with strategic responsibility for tooling roadmaps and platform architecture, typically blending 70% engineering with 30% design leadership. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of building share-nothing, on-demand pipeline runtimes and custom monitoring/management tooling that materially reduced TCO and deployment lead times.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer