Daniel Austin-merrill
Observability And Resilience Lead at J.P. Morgan Personal Investing
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Austin-merrill is an observability and resilience lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across finance and defense. He combines strong DevOps and SRE skills—Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Concourse/Jenkins—with TypeScript and Go to design reliable deployments and engineer resilient systems. At J.P. Morgan he progressed from SRE to leading observability efforts, applying GitOps and CI/CD best practices learned during senior roles at BAE Systems. He has a track record of improving developer productivity through containerised dev environments, reusable Helm charts, and automation that reduce operational toil. Trained with a first-class Computer Science degree and an industrial placement, he balances deep technical craft with stakeholder-facing support and mentoring. Outside the obvious toolset, he brings a practical knack for preventing knowledge loss through process changes and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Computing, Physics, French, Law AS, Extended Project, A*, A, A, A, A, A Levels, Computing, Physics, French, Law AS, Extended Project, A*, A, A, A, A at Farnborough Sixth Form CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science with an Industrial Year, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science with an Industrial Year, 1st Class Honours at University of Birmingham
French, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
service-worker9
depth8
api8
mocking8
devtools8
apollo8
mswjs7
sampling7
rest7
msw7
react7
viewer7
graphql6
rest-api6
k8s6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
djaustin/netpane
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
A simplistic view of Netbox IPAM. Like a box but without the depth.
Contributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 66 commits in 7 months
boxnetboxdepthipamnextjs
djaustin/question-master
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
A customisable experience sampling application with a live results viewer
Contributions:3 releases, 28 reviews, 34 PRs in 6 months
experience-samplingcustomisableresults-viewerviewersampling
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