Summary
Gareth Coffey is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience architecting, automating, and securing cloud and hybrid environments across finance, media, healthcare, and e-commerce. He currently focuses on Infrastructure as Code in Azure using Terraform and Azure DevOps, while also driving platform reliability at The Gym Group and Cachesure. As founder of Progressive Ops he blends entrepreneurial product thinking with technical delivery, building NoCode/LowCode tools and ML-driven anomaly detection pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes and Kubeflow. Gareth’s toolkit spans AWS, Azure, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, CodeBuild), identity platforms (ForgeRock, Cognito, AAD) and several programming languages, enabling pragmatic, cost-aware solutions. Notably, he pairs consultancy breadth with deep implementation experience—migrating blockchain marketplaces, delivering SIEM for banking, and contributing to enterprise automation literature. Based in Stony Stratford, he’s known for turning complex problems into efficient, production-ready systems that balance quality and cost.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Business IT & Media, Business IT & Media at South Island School - Hong Kong