Summary
Lee Shakespeare is a Cloud Architect with over 10 years' experience designing and automating large-scale public and private cloud platforms, currently shaping cloud solutions at Red Hat UK. He combines deep expertise in DevOps/CI-CD, IaaS/PaaS, Linux open-source stacks, identity and PKI security with a strong background in Java/J2EE middleware and webservice architectures. At HSBC he led cross-functional automation and platform selection efforts that replaced manual processes with API-driven, config-managed pipelines, delivering measurable productivity and resilience gains for high-volume banking services. Comfortable across networking, hardware security modules and core internet infrastructure, he brings both hands-on engineering and strategic platform thinking to complex enterprise environments. Based in Sheffield, Lee pairs a decade-plus of enterprise deployments with a pragmatic focus on operability and long-term capacity — often spotting integration and automation opportunities others miss.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc hons, Computer Science, BSc hons, Computer Science at The University of Liverpool