Donald Simpson
DevOps Consultant at Shell
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDonald Simpson is a DevOps consultant and platform engineer based in Scotland with two decades of hands-on experience and a decade focused specifically on DevOps, SRE and MLOps practices. He has repeatedly modernised large enterprise stacks—designing IaC with Terraform, Terragrunt and AWS CDK, building CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI and ArgoCD, and running container platforms from EKS to bare-metal Rancher. His background spans finance, publishing and energy (notably Tesco Bank, RBS, Registers of Scotland and Shell), where he led migrations to cloud, centralised logging/monitoring and integrated DevSecOps tooling. A published author and technical reviewer on Jenkins and Docker, he brings both deep tooling knowledge and a knack for translating legacy platforms into automated, observable systems. Colleagues benefit from his pragmatic automation focus and long history of building reusable infrastructure modules that speed team onboarding and reduce operational risk.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
HNC, Business Studies, HNC, Business Studies at Cardonald College, GlasgowDiploma, Quantity Surveying, Diploma, Quantity Surveying at Edinburgh Napier UniversityBLE, Bachelor of Land Economy, BLE, Bachelor of Land Economy at Aberdeen University
Github Skills (13)
amazon1
kubernetes1
discovery1
kubeadm1
devops1
service-discovery1
openshift1
aws1
infrastructure1
amazon-ecs1
terraform1
consul1
ansible1
Github contributions (5)
DonaldSimpson/github_updater
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:416 pushes in 29 days
DonaldSimpson/groovy
Sep 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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