Craig Munro
Principal Platform Engineer
Tunbridge Wells, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Munro is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years of focused experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently leading platform initiatives at Paymentology. He specializes in Kubernetes and containerization, having designed and delivered enterprise GKE and OpenShift platforms using Terraform, Flux, Vault, Prometheus and custom admission controllers. His background in high-performance computing and a PhD in distributed computing underpin a pragmatic approach to resilient, multi-tenant infrastructure and automation at scale. Craig combines hands-on implementation (Ansible, GitLab pipelines, Vault, Artifactory) with team leadership—prioritising workloads, onboarding developers and delivering internal training on container best practices. Notably, he has a track record of reducing operational risk through configuration management and platform consolidation across banking environments. Based in Tunbridge Wells, he brings academic depth and production-hardened delivery to complex cloud migrations and platform engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, High Performance Computing, MSc, High Performance Computing at The University of EdinburghPhD, Distributed Computing using the Grid for High Energy Physics, PhD, Distributed Computing using the Grid for High Energy Physics at Brunel University of London
Swedish
Github Skills (60)
validation10
messaging9
continuous-testing9
controller9
kafka-connect9
continuous-deployment9
kafka-streams9
continuous-integration9
security9
continuous-delivery9
gatekeeper9
ansible9
openshift9
conftest9
mutation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
greggigon/docker-hack-night
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 26 pushes in 7 days
craigmunro/craigmunro.github.io
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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