Cai Cooper
Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCai Cooper is a Senior Staff Platform Engineer based in Swansea, Wales, with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, scalable platforms for financial services and enterprise customers. He blends hands-on DevOps and platform engineering—Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Tekton—with a strong focus on developer experience, automation and operability. Cai has driven CI/CD and multi-tenant platform work at CloudBees and Chainalysis and helped shift teams toward “no humans” production patterns while consulting for large clients like Google, SAP and VWFS. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and release automation for the Jenkins X ecosystem, touching both documentation UI and release tooling. He is known as an empathetic technical leader who develops talent, reduces failure modes through value-stream thinking, and favours simple, durable solutions. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he pairs front-end polish with deep infrastructure automation, bridging developer UX and platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Swansea University
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
hugo10
scripting10
jenkins-x10
css10
bash10
cicd10
gcp10
automation10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
automations10
devops10
git9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:130 commits, 104 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Cai primarily contributed to the Jenkins X project by implementing and modifying infrastructure and deployment related configurations. The commits show the user focused on managing and configuring GKE resources, including the addition and cleanup of Google Compute Engine addresses. They also worked on integrating and configuring ExternalDNS, as well as adding support for tenant cluster automation.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
jenkins-x/jx-docs
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Source code used to build the Jenkins X documentation and website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Cai primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Jenkins X documentation website. Their contributions included adjustments to button visibility and positioning, moving elements within the page layout, and refactoring styles into a CSS file for better maintainability. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to spacing, alignment, and the implementation of a sticky table of contents (TOC) for improved user experience. They also made minor modifications to the site's appearance.
jenkinsjenkins-xhugo
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