Doug Bridgens
Founder at Tripkist
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDoug Bridgens is a founder and infrastructure engineer with 10+ years building and automating large-scale cloud systems, specialising in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps-era tooling. He combines hands-on development in Go and Python with deep operational experience—from designing high-performance LAMP and MySQL platforms to running production EKS clusters and writing infrastructure automation. His career spans startup CTO roles and cleared UK government DevOps leadership, showing an ability to deliver secure, scalable systems across regulated environments. An active developer of infrastructure tools (notably Go-based), he iterates quickly between prototyping and production automation. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems programming, ops craftsmanship and entrepreneurial drive to founding new ventures.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (62)
network-configuration10
benchmark10
python10
redhat10
cybersecurity10
hat10
terraform10
automation10
aws10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
compliance-automation10
devops10
hardening10
ansible-role10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thisdougb/ansible-hashivault
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
thisdougb/magiclink
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
A Go package that implements magic-link login functionality.
Contributions:5 releases, 40 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 months
golanggo-packageredissecuritymagic
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