Guy Watson
Lead DevOps Engineer at GumGum
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Watson is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across media, finance, and startup sectors in the Greater Sydney area. He has progressed from software development into DevOps leadership, driving CI/CD, blue/green deployments, automation and AWS architecture at companies including GumGum, Spaceship and Stan. Proficient in Go, Python, C# and a broad DevOps toolchain (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Puppet), he blends hands-on scripting with platform design to reduce toil and increase release velocity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic R&D into new technologies and for translating developer needs into resilient, automated systems. A lifelong tinkerer who started building software as a teen, he pairs game-development roots with production-grade infrastructure expertise—often surfacing creative automation ideas informed by both disciplines.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Kotara High SchoolBachelor of Information Technology Software Development and Applications, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Development and Applications at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (7)
google5
google-cloud5
golang4
go3
kubernetes1
docker1
podman1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DevGuyOps/spotifyctl
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
DevGuyOps/pr-thankyou-action
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 4 pushes in 1 day
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