Chris Cooper-jones
Senior Head Of Platform Operations & Development (PeerJ)
Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Cooper-jones is a seasoned platform and operations leader with 12 years of experience designing, automating, and scaling infrastructure for publishing and financial services. Currently Senior Head of Platform Operations & Development at Taylor & Francis Group (PeerJ), he rose through hands-on DevOps and systems roles at PeerJ, Secure Trading, and Fundtech, blending infrastructure architecture with operational reliability. He has deep expertise in configuration management, monitoring, Debian/Enterprise Linux administration, MySQL replication and backup strategies, and automating deployments at scale. Based in Llandudno, Wales, he pairs an MSc in Computing and Internet Systems with a practical finance background, enabling pragmatic risk-aware engineering decisions. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who moves from incident triage to strategic platform improvements while keeping developer productivity and business continuity aligned.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computing and Internet Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Computing and Internet Systems at University of Wales, Bangor
Github Skills (29)
infrastructure-management9
python9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
docker8
salt8
saltstack8
scale8
iot8
configuration-management8
package-repository8
devops7
infrastructure-as-code7
schematron7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PeerJ/MEMon
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Missing Event MONitor (MEMon)
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
monitormissing
PeerJ/server-includes
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years
buildsminecraft
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