Ian Battersby
Director, Cloud Infrastructure at GSK
Nantwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarIan Battersby is a cloud-native infrastructure leader with 14 years of experience building scalable, secure platforms that accelerate AI/ML-driven drug discovery at GSK, where he now directs Cloud Infrastructure for the Onyx R&D organisation. He blends hands-on systems architecture and principal-engineer-level coding with strategic leadership, having designed multi-cloud, zero-trust platforms that let product teams go from idea to production in under an hour. A pragmatic advocate for automation and best practice, Ian has driven cross-functional teams to deliver robust, secure services on GCP and Azure and previously led decomposition efforts at Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Brighter and FAKE, reflecting a background in messaging, build automation and backend reliability. Based in Nantwich, UK, he pairs deep technical craft with an inclusive leadership style that prioritises continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
octokit10
messaging10
msbuild10
net10
dotnet10
rabbitmq10
asp-net10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
fsharp10
csharp10
net-library9
xunit9
c-libraries9
class-library9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BrighterCommand/Brighter
Mar 2015 - May 2016
A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 27 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the Brighter framework, focusing on core functionality and infrastructure. They addressed various aspects, including bug fixes (spelling and license issues), refactoring, and the addition of features like delayed message support. Their contributions included changes to messaging gateways (RabbitMQ), and adjustments to configuration for task list examples. They also modified code related to the core concepts, such as the implementation of Requeue functionality.
vertical-slice-architecturecommand-processorc-sharpdotnetcorenuget-packages
fsprojects/FAKE
Aug 2012 - Jul 2016
FAKE - F# Make
Role in this project:Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the project by enhancing the build process, specifically creating missing build directories in the `mono_build.sh` script. They also added functionality to interact with GitHub Releases using the Octokit module, implementing features like retrieving the latest release, downloading assets, and retrieving releases by tag. Furthermore, the user improved the build process for web applications and updated the XUnit2 module to handle failures more gracefully, showing a focus on build automation and error handling.
fsharpdotnetcsharpdotnet-core
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