John Wood
CI CD Engineer at Nationwide Building Society
Wroughton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Wood is a seasoned CI/CD and systems engineer with a long-running passion for all things IT, from Sinclair QL hobbyist tinkering to managing modern Kubernetes clusters and server racks. With a career spanning embedded handheld software through enterprise hosting and cloud-native operations, he excels at migrating monolithic Windows environments to containerized Linux platforms and building reliable CI/CD pipelines. Currently at Nationwide Building Society, he brings practical SRE-style troubleshooting experience—from OOM crashes and certificate renewals to DNS failovers—honed in customer-facing roles at D2iQ and Red Technology. He pairs hands-on engineering with clear technical writing and process leadership, having introduced Kubernetes adoption, NetBox for infrastructure visibility, and GitLab-based automation in previous roles. Based in Wroughton, UK, John combines a pragmatic, curiosity-driven mindset with deep operational know-how that helps teams bridge legacy systems and modern infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Maths Physics Computing, A-Level Maths Physics Computing at New College SwindonGCSE Computing Maths Science English Geography Electronics, GCSE Computing Maths Science English Geography Electronics at Highworth Warneford SchoolComputing and Informatics, Computing and Informatics at University of Plymouth
French, English
Github Skills (173)
woocommerce10
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firefox-addon10
visual-studio10
sounds10
wordpress10
raspbian10
editor10
android-auto10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kolonuk/get_iplayer-docker
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
A docker container for get-iplayer which grabs the latest release instead of bundling a static release in the container.
Contributions:55 commits, 4 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 years 3 months
get-iplayerdockerdocker-containerbundlingiplayer
kolonuk/ktx
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
manage kubernetes cluster configs
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
clusterconfigskuberneteskubernetes-cluster
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