Martin Jackson
Platform Engineering Lead Via Equal Experts
Watford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Jackson is a platform engineering leader and fractional CTO with 15+ years delivering cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps and platform teams for large public and private-sector organisations. Currently leading platform engineering at HMRC via Equal Experts, he specialises in translating strategy into scalable internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and measurable governance (OKRs/KPIs) that lift velocity and reduce waste. He combines deep hands-on experience across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and IaC with executive translation—speaking fluent C-suite and engineering without losing signal. Martin is also active in leadership and community roles, from programme leadership at 100 Black Men of London to NEDonBoard and diversity-focused networks, bringing governance and mentoring expertise into technical delivery. Notably, he pairs operational rigor (FinOps, cost-per-commit metrics) with a track record of cutting platform costs and boosting team performance through coaching and tooling. Based in Watford, he blends an Executive MBA with decades of practical platform and SRE work, making strategic technology choices that are immediately operable.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA Business Administration Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA Business Administration Management and Operations at Middlesex UniversityBSc Computing for Business, BSc Computing for Business at North London University
Github Skills (140)
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cloud-foundry10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
KrisBuytaert/puppet-pulp
Oct 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 3 months
actionjack/so-you-want-to-onboard-a-devops-engineer
May 2017 - Aug 2021
Guidance on how to make your environment easier to onboard for Web Ops Engineers, SRE's and DevOps Practitioners
Contributions:401 commits, 364 PRs, 282 pushes in 4 years 3 months
onboardopspractitionerssaltdevops
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