Joseph Irving
Senior DevOps Engineer at PlayStation
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Irving is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently helping scale Kubernetes at PlayStation from London. Trained in Physics, he approaches complex systems by breaking them into tractable problems, a mindset that helped him lead platform migrations and multi-tenant Kubernetes adoption across public-sector and consumer-tech organizations. He’s hands-on across CI/CD, observability and infrastructure as code, with notable open-source contributions to projects integrating AWS IAM with Kubernetes (kiam), where he improved monitoring, bug fixes, and dependency updates. Comfortable moving fast between technologies, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity-driven habit of rapidly picking up new tools to solve thorny operational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology at Lancaster University
English, French, Korean
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
aws10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
metric9
testing8
ias7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
uswitch/kiam
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Integrate AWS IAM with Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 20 reviews, 15 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joseph focused on enhancing the repository's functionality and improving its monitoring capabilities. They implemented metrics related to proxy request blocking within the AWS IAM integration. The user also addressed a bug related to resolving empty roles, ensuring proper handling of such scenarios. Additionally, they updated the project dependencies, specifically upgrading the Go version and updating the Helm package configuration.
iamiam-rolekubernetesaws-iamaws
uswitch/nidhogg
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Kubernetes Node taints based on Daemonset Pods
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 12 commits in 11 months
kubernetesdaemonsetkubernetes-nodepods
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