Giles Westwood
Senior Devops Engineer at ORCID
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGiles Westwood is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Brighton with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure using configuration management, infrastructure-as-code and immutable deployment patterns. He has progressed from 3rd-line support to managing teams and architectures, leading cloud and hybrid hosting projects, PostgreSQL replication/failover systems, and automated deployments with Ansible, CloudFormation and Docker. At HighWire and ORCID he combined networking, load-balancing and WAF design with custom tooling—writing JVM analysis and Solr failover daemons—showing a willingness to build bespoke solutions when off-the-shelf tools fall short. Comfortable on-call and versed in incident handling, Giles pairs operational rigor with developer empathy from earlier development work, making him effective at bridging teams. His background in managing data centers, BGP multihoming and WireGuard redesigns highlights a rare blend of low-level networking and modern cloud-native practice.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2:2, Computer science, 2:2, Computer science at University of LeedsLady Manners
English
Stackoverflow
101reputation
42kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (175)
python10
automation10
multiple-languages10
maven10
linter10
refactoring10
ansible-role10
ssh10
network-configuration10
javascript10
orcid10
ansible10
dispatch10
java10
asdf10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ORCID-dev/orcid_dev-angular
Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:30 PRs, 130 pushes, 244 branches in 1 year 7 months
ORCID-dev/ORCID_DEV-Source
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 105 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 11 months
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