George Cairns
Principal Engineer at Contino
Calderdale, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Cairns is a Principal Engineer and cloud architect with 23 years in IT and over a decade focused on building deployment, release and operations platforms that drove large cost savings and new ways of working for banks and government. He specialises in AWS/GCP/Azure migrations, cloud automation and DevOps—designing and delivering large-scale VM fleets, internal IAAS systems and data automation platforms for clients like Lloyds, Deutsche Bank and DEFRA. Known for pragmatic engineering, he blends methodical systems design with creative scripting and containerisation to move complex legacy environments to cloud-native operations. He’s delivered award-winning work and has a track record of shipping automation that manages thousands of VMs and performs tens of thousands of server builds, reflecting both deep infrastructure tooling experience and operational sensibility. Based in Calderdale, England, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a hacker’s curiosity—often described on GitHub as a “machine teacher” and “cloud wrangler.”
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pendleton College
Github Skills (127)
hyper-v10
vagrantfile10
single-source10
packer10
vagrant10
windows-containers10
aws10
virtualbox10
linux9
fine-tuning9
application9
terraform9
docker-machine9
vms9
multiarch9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dayglo/dayglo.github.com
May 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:28 pushes in 8 years 10 months
dayglo/dxc-os-deploy
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:227 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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