Summary
Michael Leer-hipple is a Managing Director and seasoned cloud platform engineer with over a decade specialising in cloud, DevOps, and reliability engineering and more than 20 years in IT. He leads teams that design AWS- and Kubernetes-based platforms, routinely cutting client cloud costs by up to 40% through Terraform-driven architectures, GitOps pipelines, and pragmatic cost-optimisation. Michael’s background spans fintech, payments, and SaaS, with hands-on experience embedding chaos engineering, SLO-driven reliability, and observability at scale. He’s founded and run consultancies that turned legacy stacks into secure, auditable cloud platforms and has repeatedly accelerated delivery velocity by modernising CI/CD. Based in Harlow, he combines board-level advisory to CTOs with day-to-day mentoring of engineers, and is known for translating complex compliance and resilience requirements into repeatable infrastructure patterns.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St Aloysuis College
English