Summary
Giles Burgess is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Bristol with 11 years designing and shipping storage and edge systems across enterprise and startup environments. He combines deep hands-on QA and systems engineering experience—from HPE StoreOnce and block-storage internals to automation frameworks, Kubernetes CSI drivers and cloud integrations—with a focus on reliable, testable platforms. At StorMagic he led test automation, CI/CD pipelines and delivered tooling like disk image uploaders, 2FA management and VM/KVM CLIs; he now applies that platform-quality mindset to Graphcore’s QA. A pragmatic technical leader and mentor, Giles bridges development and operations, writes production-grade Python and low-level scripts, and has managed large test fleets and release processes. Outside work he designs circuit boards and pursues adventurous retro gaming, hinting at a hardware-software curiosity that informs his systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Science, First Class at University of Bedfordshire