Mike Owens
AWS Consultant at Major Devops Consultancy / Travel industry client
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Owens is an experienced AWS consultant and Linux-focused DevOps engineer with over 11 years delivering cloud migrations, high-availability architectures, and infrastructure automation for enterprises across retail, media, finance, and government. Based in London, he has led major migrations—from Oracle RAC and large VMware estates into AWS to sharded MongoDB clusters in multi-AZ VPCs—while implementing Puppet, Ansible, and bespoke tooling to maintain reliability at scale. His background spans hands-on systems engineering, datacentre moves, and early AWS work dating back to classic EC2, giving him a practical depth in both legacy and cloud-native platforms. He has supported high-traffic public services (up to millions of users) and held SC clearance for sensitive government projects, reflecting strong operational discipline. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance automation, cost, and uptime, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity rooted in a formal computing education from St Andrews. Not obviously visible from titles alone, he has run his own consultancy and repeatedly stepped into senior troubleshooting roles where rapid, reliable remediation was critical.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
computational science electronics, theory of programming languages, computational science electronics, theory of programming languages at University of St Andrews7 o levels 5 a levels, maths physics chemistry biology general studies a levels, 7 o levels 5 a levels, maths physics chemistry biology general studies a levels at xaverian college
Github Skills (99)
user-guide10
amazon-ec210
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
linux9
queue9
security9
aws9
checker9
telemetry9
provisioning8
static-analysis8
monitoring8
architecture8
opentelemetry8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mjnowen/amazon-ec2-user-guide
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
The open source version of the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux. To submit feedback or requests for changes, submit an issue or make changes and submit a pull request.
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 months
ec2amazon-ec2amazonlinuxuser-guide
mjnowen/aws-cdi-sdk
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) SDK. Documentation at: https://aws.github.io/aws-cdi-sdk/mainline/index.html
Contributions:14 pushes in 3 months
aws-cloudindexsdkmainlineaws-sdk
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