Gavin Williams
Senior Platform Engineer
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Williams is a Senior Platform Engineer with 13 years building and modernising cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, now focused on platform reliability and developer experience. He has led platform teams and initiatives—implementing Terraform IaC pipelines, migrating CI/CD to GitHub Actions, and proving zero-trust access patterns—while mentoring engineers and driving tech-debt reduction. A pragmatic open-source contributor, Gavin has notable contributions to Terraform and its OpenStack/Vault providers and the Puppet ecosystem (including a NetApp device module), reflecting deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation. Based in Bristol, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps work with a strong testing and QA mindset, regularly authoring tests and improving service resilience. Not obviously visible from job titles, he also has a history of implementing large-scale monitoring and system automation dating back to early-career roles, showing long-term ownership of operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (50)
puppeteer10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
puppet10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
rspec10
cloud-infrastructure10
networking10
terraform10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
terraformer10
elasticsearchquery10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-provider-openstack/terraform-provider-openstack
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Terraform OpenStack provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:63 commits, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack Terraform provider, adding features for managing OpenStack networking resources. Their contributions involved adding support for 'value_specs' across multiple resources (e.g., networks, subnets, ports, floating IPs, keypairs, firewalls, server groups), along with vendor-specific options. They also refactored code to leverage common types and functions within the provider and addressed issues related to floating IP disassociation and gateway IP handling. Furthermore, the user was involved in migrating to gophercloud, making several improvements to code structure and debugging capabilities.
providerterraform-provider-openstackopenstackterraformterraform-provider
voxpupuli/puppet-mongodb
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
mongodb installation
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 65 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the `mongodb-puppet` module, focusing on improving authentication, replica set management, and configuration aspects. They enhanced support for MongoDB authentication by introducing admin user creation and incorporating it into the `mongorc.js` file. They also addressed replica set configurations, offering options for member specification and introduced a new fact for determining if the mongo instance is a master. Furthermore, the user fixed configuration formats and tests.
linux-puppet-moduleinstallationmongodbpuppetcentos-puppet-module
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