Josh Finch
Chief Technology Officer at Ologist
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJosh Finch is a pragmatic CTO and cloud engineering leader with nine years of dedicated cloud architecture and automation experience and 14 years of broader technical practice across public sector, fintech, and digital transformation. He has led large-scale migrations (notably Oracle to AWS), built nationwide PaaS platforms for the NHS, and delivered secure, production-grade infrastructure and CI/CD at pace—helping startups achieve ISO 27001 and shepherding companies through acquisition. Hands-on across Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, containers and SRE practices, he blends platform engineering with product-focused delivery and team mentorship. Based in Leeds, he’s known for turning legacy estates into low-ops, testable platforms and for embedding operational reliability and security into development lifecycles.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (80)
api-platform9
signed9
client-credentials9
api8
identity8
idp8
aws8
spec8
keystore8
proxy7
filemaker7
credentials7
jmap6
jwt6
single-page6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
boopmail/python-jmap
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Idiomatic Python library for working with the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 months
jmap
ologistio/magi
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
A batteries-included, cloud-agnostic framework for infrastructure-as-code, using the tools you already love.
Contributions:23 PRs, 70 pushes, 19 branches in 8 days
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