Jeremy Ruffell
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at iHeartMedia
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJeremy Ruffell is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne with 8 years’ experience designing and operating large-scale, zero-downtime cloud platforms. He led the architecture and delivery of a global broadcast PaaS at RCS/iHeartMedia handling millions of daily requests, owning CI/CD, build pipelines, and company-wide DevOps adoption. Expert in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitHub Actions and observability tooling, he combines hands-on engineering with people leadership—coaching a follow-the-sun DevOps team to improve responsiveness across time zones. Jeremy is known for translating complex operational requirements into repeatable infrastructure-as-code and resilient release processes that scale for both B2B and B2C products. Outside work he experiments with services and architectures in a HomeLab, which he uses to prototype production-ready patterns and validate performance trade-offs. This blend of practical tinkering and enterprise delivery gives him a rare perspective on both innovation and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
NCEA Level 1, NCEA Level 1 at Middleton Grange SchoolDiploma of Education, Software Development, NZCA Level 6, Diploma of Education, Software Development, NZCA Level 6 at Vision CollegeNCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 2 at Hagley College
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Github Skills (98)
github10
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terraform-module10
digitalocean10
git10
hyperopt10
aws10
javascript9
kubernetes-cluster9
kubernetes-deployment9
terraform9
python9
kubernetes-setup9
open-source9
elastic9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
k4v8a/First
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
jeremyruffell/jeremyruffell
Oct 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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