Hayden Young
Platform Engineer
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHayden Young is a Platform Engineer based in Sheffield with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, and RHEL. He led the transformation of ESP Projects from manual deployments to a CI/CD-driven GitOps culture, applying tools like Pulumi, Terraform, Flux CD and GitLab CI to enable safer, more frequent releases. At ZOO Digital he helped design an observability stack using Loki, Prometheus and CloudWatch to drive performance improvements and maintain high uptime. Hayden contributes to open-source projects such as Rocky Linux’s documentation, where he implemented mkdocs setup, theming and automation—demonstrating an eye for developer experience and branding. Comfortable coding in Go, TypeScript, PHP and JS, he blends software engineering with systems thinking to build cost-effective, maintainable platforms. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic DevOps advocate who turns operational pain points into repeatable, automated workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education Digital Solutions Professional (Software Engineering), Diploma of Education Digital Solutions Professional (Software Engineering) at Sheffield Hallam University
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Github Skills (7)
css10
mkdocs10
documentation10
bash8
yaml8
javascript6
react6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
rocky-linux/documentation
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Official Rocky Linux documentation repository.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 40 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Hayden contributed to the documentation repository by implementing initial setup for `mkdocs`, including configuration of the theme and adding a 404 page. They also updated the stylesheet to reflect the project's branding, changing the accent colors to match the Rocky Linux theme. Furthermore, the user made changes to the site layout and added automation scripts.
rockylinuxrockylinuxrocky-linuxhpc
rocky-linux/rocky-fonts
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
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