Des Drury
Lead Technical Architect Hosting Lead at Salsa Digital
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDes Drury is a lead technical architect and hosting lead based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native infrastructure, observability and automation at enterprise scale. He designs and operates Kubernetes-based hosting platforms (author of the Open Datacentre distribution) and has built end-to-end production tooling—from custom Prometheus exporters and Kubernetes controllers to Terraform-managed AWS architectures. A pragmatic mentor and recruiter, he routinely turns complex operational patterns into documented, repeatable solutions and trains teams to own them. He’s a long-time Kubernetes evangelist and creator of accessible learning resources (including a Packt video course), and regularly shapes platform roadmaps and RFQs as a subject-matter expert. Beyond core ops, he has applied his engineering rigor to novel problems such as measuring compute carbon and streamlining multi-tenant Drupal/WordPress delivery. Colleagues know him for combining deep technical craft with clear communication and a bias toward simple, reusable systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Computing BSc, Applied Computing BSc at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes-helm10
charts8
ansible8
helm8
visualizations7
kubernetes7
docker-build7
vmware7
elasticsearch6
elastic6
observability6
kibana6
bitnami4
docker3
k8s3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/kubernetes-in-7-days-video
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 month
opendatacentre/opendc-mini
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 2 months
helmci-cdhelm-chartsk8skubernetes
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