Gareth Oakley
Principal Platform Engineer
Chester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGareth Oakley is a Principal Platform Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and full-stack applications. He combines hands-on DevOps and backend expertise with a history of leading platform architecture work—designing multi-account AWS strategies, PCI-compliant environments, and Terraform-driven automation—while also contributing to front-end and UX requirements. Comfortable working solo or paired, he has led distributed teams and delivered business-critical systems on time and to security standards, including a trader portal for ENGIE and platform work at thinkmoney. An active open-source contributor, his patches span HashiCorp Terraform, Sequelize, node-mysql2 and other projects, reflecting a pragmatic focus on interoperability and operational hygiene. Based in Chester, UK, he blends deep testing and automation roots with a knack for translating complex compliance and deployment needs into repeatable, auditable pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing Science with Industrial Experience, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing Science with Industrial Experience at The University of ManchesterWinstanley College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (169)
api-platform10
postgresql10
jsonb10
api-client10
databases10
db210
terraform10
backup10
faunadb10
rest-api10
terraform-module10
javascript10
api10
mysqljs10
sql10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gazoakley/terraform-aws-session-manager-settings
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
Allows configuration of logging settings for AWS SSM Session Manager
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 8 commits in 3 years 10 months
ssmaws-ssmloggingsession-manageraws
gazoakley/terraform-provider-aws
Aug 2017 - Sep 2021
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:3 releases, 167 pushes, 93 branches in 4 years 1 month
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
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