Neill Turner
Platform Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeill Turner is a Platform Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native and DevOps platforms for both government and commercial customers across AWS, Azure and on-prem VMware/Nutanix. He excels at turning complex requirements into simple, test-driven automation using Terraform, Ansible, Chef/Puppet, Packer and CI pipelines, and has operated across the full stack from databases and web servers to Kubernetes and monitoring stacks. A seasoned consultant comfortable in agile teams, he has held SC security clearance and led platform work for large UK public-sector projects including analytics and data warehouse initiatives. Neill is an active open-source contributor—maintaining a notable Ansible provisioner for Test Kitchen—and brings practical tooling experience that speeds developer onboarding and idempotent infrastructure testing. His background as a certified Java developer and early career in grid/HPC gives him a rare blend of enterprise software rigor and cloud operations fluency. Based in Stony Stratford, he now focuses on building resilient developer platforms and reusable automation that reduce operational friction.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW SydneyNewington College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
test-kitchen10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
scripting9
ruby9
shell9
script9
sh9
automations8
automation8
linux8
cicd7
tomcat6
chef-infra6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
neillturner/kitchen-ansible
Jun 2014 - Apr 2021
Ansible Provisioner for Test Kitchen
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:89 releases, 389 commits, 140 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Neill primarily contributed to the development and configuration of an Ansible-based provisioner for Test Kitchen. Their work involved the creation and modification of the `ansible_playbook.rb` file, the core component for running Ansible playbooks. The commits include installation improvements, the addition of various options for Ansible setup, and support for different operating systems. They also integrated features like idempotency testing, extra variables, and support for custom configuration files.
ansibletest-kitchenkitchenprovisioner
neillturner/aws-alb-logs-to-elasticsearch
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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