Ed Fricker
Director Of Engineering at Smile ID
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEd Fricker is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 11+ years delivering cloud-native platforms, full‑stack products and ops-driven efficiency gains across startups and enterprise projects. He’s led multi-region refactors and platform migrations at Smile ID—cutting latency ~5x and reducing cloud costs ~40%—while driving ISO27001 and SOC2 certifications with zero downtime. Equally comfortable shipping code (notably contributions to the Convox PaaS) and shaping people processes, he blends hands‑on DevOps, Kubernetes/AWS expertise and agile coaching to accelerate teams. A long-time remote worker and recruiter, he’s known for stepping into whatever role the business needs—from mentor and scrum master to DevOps engineer and hiring lead. Formerly Edward Charles Southey, he brings a pragmatic, culture-forward approach to scalable engineering and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Degree Computer Engineering, Associate Degree Computer Engineering at University of SouthamptonShaftesbury
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Github Skills (16)
go10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
aws-ecs10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
paas9
docker9
kubernetes9
api8
cicd8
apidoc8
secrets-manager6
secret-key6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
convox/rack
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 releases, 10 reviews, 216 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ed's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Convox Rack PaaS platform, demonstrating expertise in back-end and DevOps practices. They implemented features related to image pulling for private registries, ensuring secure access to private Docker images. The user also addressed system configuration, added required system directories for Twistlock, and made improvements to build processes and deployment configurations. They demonstrated proficiency in AWS and Kubernetes-related configurations and added functionality to support AWS partitions.
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softwarecommunications/softwarecommunications.github.io
Mar 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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