Summary
Dylan Sides is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer based in the UK with over 10 years of hands-on experience designing and managing cloud-native infrastructure and engineering teams. He has progressed from founding a technical consultancy and hosting company to leading infrastructure at Companies House, after a long tenure managing architecture, technical sales and R&D at Ixis IT. A pragmatic Linux specialist and former C++ game developer, Dylan blends deep systems-level knowledge with practical cloud architecture and sysadmin instincts. He’s comfortable balancing people leadership, operational reliability and exploratory internal R&D—often turning experimental work into production-ready services. Outside formal roles he has a long track record of running small, client-facing hosting businesses, which gives him an uncommon appreciation for operational constraints and cost-aware design.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer