Bob Walker
Head Of Platform Engineering
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Walker is a seasoned platform and operations leader with 23+ years building and running scalable infrastructure across Linux, BSD and Solaris, and cloud platforms including AWS and Azure. As Head of Platform Engineering at dxw and former Head of Web Operations at GDS, he blends hands-on engineering (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, ECS) with product management and security experience, having led ISO 27001 recertification and large platform migrations. He has a track record of hiring, mentoring and structuring teams to reduce operational burden—advocating HumanOps and improving on-call practices to make support sustainable. An early practitioner of DevOps and co-organiser of DevOpsDays London, he pairs strong technical judgement with community leadership and event organisation. He’s comfortable switching between technical lead, product owner and hands-on engineer, and has made measurable impact by replacing legacy tooling and introducing scalable CI/CD and configuration management practices. Based in London with a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic, people-focused operational leadership.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Imperial College LondonGodalming 6th Form College
English
Github Skills (200)
infrastructure10
puppet10
boxen10
vcloud-director10
provisioning9
origami9
terraform9
reliability-engineering9
platform-tools9
terraform-provider9
project-configuration9
aws9
roda9
rbenv9
integrate9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/puppet-auditd
Mar 2013 - Jan 2017
Puppet module for Auditd
Contributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
puppet
dxw/dxw-tinyproxy
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
a dxw docker image for tinyproxy
Contributions:9 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
dockerfiledocker-imagedocker-machinedockerdalmatian
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