Summary
John Barber is a Principal Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing secure, resilient, and high-performance cloud platforms across public and private environments. He has led large-scale Kubernetes and AWS migrations, built observability and CI/CD platforms for tier‑1 banks and gaming companies, and delivered Well-Architected remediation and SRE improvements that measurably reduced operational risk. Comfortable both as a strategic architect and a day‑to‑day builder, he combines platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK/Ansible), and service reliability practices to drive repeatable, cost‑optimized outcomes. Known for pragmatic, workshop-driven requirements gathering and frequent "game day" exercises, he brings an operator’s mindset to complex modernisation projects. Based in England, he has a track record of translating regulatory and security constraints into scalable cloud architectures for public sector and enterprise clients.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Trent College