Jason Field
Full Stack Engineer at HSBC
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolJason Field is a Full Stack Engineer and SRE leader with 10 years' experience building resilient, production-grade platforms across finance and fintech in Hong Kong and London. He has led SRE and DevOps teams at HSBC and Calastone, combining hands-on configuration management, container orchestration, CI/CD and observability to drive long-term service reliability. A pragmatic technical evangelist, he frequently contributes to Chef and Test Kitchen ecosystems—improving CI, release management and cookbook compatibility—which underscores his focus on automation and maintainable infrastructure. Jason’s background spans both Windows and Linux-centric infrastructures and he has shipped integrations for monitoring platforms like Datadog, revealing a knack for bridging operational insight with developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Anglia Ruskin UniversityBTEC IT System Support, BTEC IT System Support at Peterborough Regional CollegeSaint Georges Church Of England
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Github Skills (52)
json-parser10
apim10
test-kitchen10
json10
cookbook10
github-ci10
system-configuration10
data-collection10
python10
testing10
windows10
configuration-management10
jsonp10
circleci10
terraform10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apache2
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 65 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the Apache2 cookbook's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions included code changes to resources and templates, and fixes to tests and dependencies. They also merged branches and addressed issues related to ports and modules. They demonstrated expertise in configuring Apache2, fixing integration problems, and ensuring compatibility across various operating systems.
apacheapache2chef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
sous-chefs/redisio
Dec 2018 - Jun 2021
Development repository for the redisio cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 52 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the `redisio` cookbook. They implemented fixes related to user creation and updated configurations for various components including sentinel. The commits demonstrate a focus on Chef cookbook best practices, integration with new features, and support for Chef 14, ensuring the cookbook's compatibility and efficiency. This work also involved CircleCI integration with new orb updates, demonstrating expertise in automation.
cookbookredisredisioredisearchchef-resource
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