Jonny Ford
Director, Data Applications
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonny Ford is a data and infrastructure leader with 11 years of engineering experience, now serving as Director of Data Applications at Virgin Media O2. He specialises in scaling data platforms and SRE organisations, driving DevOps culture, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and automated delivery across both startups and large enterprises in finance, e-commerce and marketing. At Just Eat Takeaway he led global data platform efforts—covering GDPR, real-time ingestion, ELT self-service and observability—and built Airflow-on-Kubernetes as a self-serve product for teams. Known for practical, hands-on leadership, he blends system administration roots with cloud-native tooling to create stable, self-service platforms that accelerate developer velocity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and platform thinking that turns operational complexity into repeatable products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Finance Economics Business Sociology, Finance Economics Business Sociology at The Leventhorpe SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at University of Chester
Github Skills (56)
kubernetes10
docker10
charts10
prometheus10
helm10
k8s10
amqp9
event-sourcing9
cqrs9
message-queue9
dm9
streaming-data9
rabbitmq9
atlantis9
jq9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jonnydford/terraform-provider-digitalocean
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Terraform digitalocean provider
Contributions:11 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
providerinfrastructure-as-codeterraformterraform-providerdigitalocean
jonnydford/do-loadbalancer-updater
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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