Mike Preston
SRE Team Lead at News UK
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Preston is an SRE Team Lead with 12 years in systems and reliability engineering and over seven years driving platform stability and automation at News UK. He blends hands-on infrastructure work—containerisation, CI/CD and cloud migrations—with team leadership, having moved teams from ad-hoc deployments to test-driven, continuous delivery practices. His background spans CTO and principal architect roles where he designed scalable, highly available systems and built deployment automation across media and telecom sectors. Comfortable both leading strategy and digging into operations, he’s known for organising things in containers and for pragmatic migrations of legacy platforms to cloud-native architectures. Based in England, he brings a strong mix of practical SRE craft, architecture experience and a history of building testing and deployment tooling from the ground up.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Wreake Valley CollegeHND, Computer Science, HND, Computer Science at De Montfort University
English
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Github Skills (180)
authentication10
sms10
factor10
security9
language-learning9
hardware9
data-export8
auth8
internet8
backend8
flask-application8
ruby8
flask-api8
bluetooth-low-energy8
sts8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Darkflib/nginx-nchan-docker
Mar 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
Darkflib/pi-notes
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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