Kris Johnstone
DevOps Engineer at Foster Moore - The registry people ®
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolKris Johnstone is a DevOps Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native pipelines and platform migrations for large government and enterprise clients. He has driven GitOps, CI/CD and containerisation initiatives at the Australian Taxation Office and led platform and mobile consolidations for major airlines, translating complex legacy systems into reliable production services. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and client-facing SME, he combines pipeline automation (Jenkins, Kubernetes, CloudFormation/ECS) with strong data-quality practices that have prevented revenue loss for stakeholders. Kris is adept at creating new patterns of working and training teams in DevOps culture to reduce handoffs and accelerate delivery. Based in Queensland and immediately available for contract work in London and the South West, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset informed by years maintaining a large-scale public registry.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Business Process Management, Bachelor of IT, Business Process Management at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (193)
synthetic10
operator10
javascript10
secrets10
packer10
external-secrets10
kubernetes-secrets10
external-secrets-operator10
sensor10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
secret-management10
devcontainer10
nodejs10
elastic10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
KrisJohnstone/amazon-eks-ami
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
KrisJohnstone/cloud-on-k8s
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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