John Wood
CI CD Engineer at Nationwide Building Society
Wroughton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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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.
11 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 (119)
woocommerce10
api-platform10
powerdns10
sounds10
wordpress10
raspbian10
editor10
android-auto10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
ecommerce10
chrome-extension10
php10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kolonuk/sbcwaste.top
Jul 2024 - Jun 2026
sbcwaste
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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
docker-container
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