Summary
Leyton Reed is an AWS-certified DevSecOps leader with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating and automating highly scalable cloud platforms across enterprise and MSP environments. Currently Global Head of DevSecOps at Belron, he has driven greenfield AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and GitLab CI/CD for multinational digital transformation programs. He combines solution architecture and delivery leadership with deep operational pedigree from roles shaping public cloud practices at UKFast and consultancy engagements for brands like Burberry. Comfortable leading both strategy and trenches, Leyton is skilled at balancing standardisation with local flexibility to keep global platforms supportable and cost-effective. He routinely applies AWS MAP principles, Well-Architected reviews and security-first practices, holding multiple professional and specialty AWS certifications. Early entrepreneurship running hosting and virtualization services gives him a pragmatic, customer-focused lens that informs his engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics English Physics Biology Chemistry History DiDA Electronics Young Entrepreneur, Mathematics English Physics Biology Chemistry History DiDA Electronics Young Entrepreneur at Saffron Walden County High School
Business Studies English Literature Computing, Business Studies English Literature Computing at Saffron Walden County High Sixth Form
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Management, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Management at King's College London