Jonathan Wright
Staff Platform Engineer
Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Wright is a Staff Platform Engineer with over two decades of Linux experience and more than a decade delivering cloud platforms and DevOps transformations across finance, public sector, and consumer services. He combines deep hands-on skills in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Ansible, CI/CD and networking (including BGP/VPN) with a pragmatic automation-first approach that moves proof-of-concepts to at-scale production. As a technical principal and consultant he has led multi-region networking, GitOps and pipeline modernisation efforts, while mentoring teams to improve delivery, stability and cross-skill collaboration. He also contributes practical tooling and tests in open-source projects—recently focusing on robust unit tests for a systemd-resolved OpenVPN helper—demonstrating attention to operational correctness as well as architecture. Based in Bridgend, Wales, he pairs platform craftsmanship with a track record of helping organisations accelerate cloud adoption and build resilient, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddA-Levels (Electronics, Physics, Chemistry, Maths), A-Levels (Electronics, Physics, Chemistry, Maths) at Wyedean Sixth Form College
English
Github Skills (11)
sh10
automation10
bash10
automations10
script10
shell10
dns10
scripting10
testing10
openvpn9
systemd9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jonathanio/update-systemd-resolved
Jun 2016 - Apr 2022
Helper script for OpenVPN to directly update the DNS settings of a link through systemd-resolved via DBus.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 97 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on writing and maintaining unit tests for the `update-systemd-resolved` script. Their contributions involved creating new test cases, updating existing ones to reflect code changes, and correcting test logic, particularly regarding domain handling and DNS settings. The user's work ensured the script's functionality and adherence to expected behavior under various configurations and scenarios. This included testing for domain routing, domain search, and DNSSEC configurations.
dbusdnsopenvpnsystemd
jonathanio/monitoring-nagios-haproxy
Oct 2015 - Aug 2018
Nagios plugin (suitable for Nagios Check-compatible programs) for monitoring HAProxy services.
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 10 months
haproxymonitoringnagios
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