John Watson
Infrastructure Engineer III at System Initiative
North Devon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Watson is an Infrastructure Engineer III and multi-cloud architect with a track record of building resilient, automated release pipelines across AWS, GCP and Azure. He has led release engineering at Matillion, delivering zero-downtime phased rollouts, artifact lifecycle management, and a CircleCI consolidation that cut CI costs by 63% and significantly sped builds for Go and Node services. Currently at System Initiative, he helps build an AI-native infrastructure automation platform while guiding a small release team to enforce standards and test-based artifact promotion. Comfortable across Kubernetes, managed cloud compute, and CI/CD tooling, he pairs deep automation skills with hands-on engineering—from shaving RPM release times to creating self-service deployment tools. Based in North Devon, he blends enterprise SRE experience with a practical maker background (including a founder-built photography platform and early IoT/ERP proofs of concept).
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Electronics, High School, Electronics at South Eastern Regional College (SERC)Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering at University of NottinghamHigh School, A2 levels - Various, High School, A2 levels - Various at Friends' School, Lisburn
English, Danish, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
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posthog3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
systeminit/si-device-compliance
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Holds the system configuration to submit validation evidence for an SI corporate device which is unsupported by other MDM services.
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 month
johnrwatson/si-assessment-ie3
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Infra Engineer 3 assessment
Contributions:22 PRs, 29 pushes, 18 branches in 2 days
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