Darren Gibbard
DevOps Engineer at Cisco
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Gibbard is a seasoned DevOps and SRE engineer with over 10 years’ experience designing, automating and operating large-scale Linux and cloud platforms, currently building high-availability data protection services at Cisco. He has architected greenfield stacks and migrated monoliths to AWS and Kubernetes across thousands of servers and dozens of global edge locations, with strong focus on CI/CD, observability and security compliance (SOC2/PCI DSS). Comfortable from low-level Unix administration to platform architecture, he blends hands-on scripting in Bash/Python (with exposure to Go/C++) and tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, EKS and Kafka. Darren’s background includes running a consultancy, leading estate-wide standardisation projects across 1,700 retail sites, and training peers—demonstrating an unusual mix of operational rigor, audit-driven discipline and practical mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A/AS-Level Physics Geography ICT Science for Public Understanding, A/AS-Level Physics Geography ICT Science for Public Understanding at Chalvedon Sixth Form College
Github Skills (78)
keda10
dump10
serverless10
thin10
cloudant10
autoscaling10
event-driven10
packer-plugin10
scale9
data-storage9
cli9
profiling9
nosql-database9
docker9
aws9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dgibbard-cisco/keda
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
hands-oncloudeventsscaleautoscalingkubernetes
dgibbard-cisco/keda-docs
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Documentation and landing page for KEDA
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
keda
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