Garrard Kitchen
Cloud Native Lead
Southport, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrard Kitchen is a Cloud Native Lead and polyglot backend developer with over a decade of experience architecting cloud-first, secure and green-by-design platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic cloud architecture, specializing in DevSecOps, containerization, serverless and digital transformation across enterprise and startup environments. A Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer with multiple Azure certifications (Developer, Security, DevOps, Solutions Architect) and IoT specialism, he has led cloud platform teams and delivered remote, cross-border projects as a former CTO. His career spans full-stack and BI foundations through to modern serverless and infrastructure-as-code practices, reflecting deep operational and integration expertise. Garrard is obsessive about quality UX/CX and pragmatic system delivery, often advising CxOs and coordinating global SI partners. Based in Southport, UK, he combines technical breadth with a long track record of shipping secure, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (hons), Business Information Systems, B.Sc. (hons), Business Information Systems at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (97)
actor10
reactive9
dotnet9
akka9
azure-webjobs-sdk9
docker-desktop9
azure-functions9
concurrency9
docker9
kubernetes9
ecr9
azure8
distributed-programming8
serverless8
actor-model8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
garrardkitchen/resume
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:125 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
garrardkitchen/bizLogic
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 38 pushes, 34 branches in 5 years 5 months
reactlogicror
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