John Soutar
Software Engineer at Tella
London, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorJohn Soutar is a full-stack software engineer and cloud architect with 12 years of experience building resilient video and content platforms from development environments to production. He has driven major infrastructure shifts—migrating video services to Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), introducing Argo CD and GitHub Actions pipelines, and cutting start-up times 5x while reducing costs and enabling multiple daily production rollouts. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has shipped React/TypeScript apps, custom video players and large-scale Node.js media processing systems with adaptive bitrate streaming. He prefers autonomous, low-ego teams and often pairs infrastructure ownership with hands-on feature delivery, bridging SRE and product engineering. Based in London, he’s repeatedly brought order to complex legacy stacks—automating ML model deployments, CI/CD, and observability tooling—so teams can move faster without sacrificing reliability. A pragmatic problem-solver, he combines deep video and cloud expertise with a track record of incremental, low-risk platform improvements.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (50)
react10
react-native9
javascript9
ios9
continuous-deployment9
cross-platform9
cicd9
continuous-delivery9
hotkeys9
typescript9
pair-programming9
linux9
docker9
cd9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
soutar/bem-class
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 25 pushes in 11 months
chainingbemclass-names
soutar/hyperterm-register-shortcut
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Register user-configurable global shortcuts for HyperTerm which respect config changes
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
hyperterm
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