Chris Williams
Principal Cloud Engineer at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Williams is a Principal Cloud Engineer with a decade-plus career driving cloud adoption and platform strategy at the DVLA, where he sets technical direction for the enterprise cloud platform and mentors the Cloud Engineering Community. An AWS-certified architect (including Professional) and CNCF-certified Kubernetes administrator, he specialises in cloud-native, event-driven architectures, EKS operations, serverless patterns and secure AWS landing zones built with CloudFormation/Terraform. He combines deep hands-on experience migrating and operating high-volume transactional Java systems with modern Ruby, Node.js, React and C# mobile work, bridging infrastructure, development and enterprise architecture teams. A pragmatic DevOps evangelist, he has led CI/CD and observability rollouts, run security-focused tooling in production, and co-organised ServerlessDays Cardiff—demonstrating both technical depth and community leadership.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
logging3
aws3
nodejs2
serverless2
amazon2
retention2
aws-apigateway1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrilliams/eks-node-drainer
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
mlewis7127/ServerlessDays-Cardiff-2019
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
ServerlessDays Cardiff Website
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
cardiffserverlessserverlessdaysaws
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