Mark Ana
Site Reliability Tech Lead at Smart Pension
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Ana is a Site Reliability Tech Lead with 14 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native infrastructure, currently working 100% remotely from Norwich. He has deep Azure and Terraform expertise, contributing to the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm by adding a PostgreSQL data source and fixing bugs. Mark has led SRE teams, designed interview and hiring processes, and implemented cost-saving and security-first measures like Let's Encrypt automation, Azure Key Vault adoption, and WireGuard-based access. He excels at reducing toil through ChatOps, blue/green deployments, and CI/CD automation while coaching engineers to adopt sustainable practices. Comfortable in both startup and public-sector environments, he pairs hands-on Go and DevOps work with pragmatic roadmaps that align infrastructure with business goals. An irreverent "sweary crime fighter" on GitHub, he combines technical rigor with a direct, results-focused style.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science Hons., 2:1, BSc, Computer Science Hons., 2:1 at University of North London
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Github Skills (19)
docker10
docker-compose10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
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dockerfile10
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to implementing a data source for PostgreSQL servers within the Azure Resource Manager provider. Their work involved writing Go code to read PostgreSQL server details, defining schemas, and integrating the data source into the provider. They also added documentation to reflect the new resource and fixed a bug in the data source.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
jpoehls/go-dayone
May 2015 - May 2021
Go package for reading Day One journal files (http://dayoneapp.com)
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
golanggo-packagejournaldayday-one
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