Oliver Hookins
Principal DevOps Engineer at Bugcrowd
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolOliver Hookins is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and engineering organisations across startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on skills in AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Go and CI/CD with proven leadership in engineering management, team growth and Agile transformation. At Bugcrowd he leads multi-account AWS operations, cost optimisation and cross-functional collaboration with security teams while mentoring distributed engineers. His background includes performance tuning from application to Linux kernel, CDN/media delivery at scale, and contributions to the widely used fpm packaging tool. Oliver’s approach pairs deep technical generalism with a focus on giving teams the context and autonomy to deliver business-aligned, resilient systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyB.Sc Computing, B.Sc Computing at Macquarie University
German, English
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Github Skills (6)
packaging10
package-management10
rpm10
ruby10
erb9
minitest8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jordansissel/fpm
Nov 2011 - Jan 2012
Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the fpm package management tool. They addressed the handling of input files via the `--inputs` option, ensuring it correctly read files for packaging. Furthermore, the user implemented support for configuration files within RPM packages, expanding fpm's capabilities. Key changes included modifying the source code to allow the input feature to function as designed, and modifying templates to accommodate configuration files within RPM generation.
package-managementpackaging
ohookins/flickr-shell-uploader
Feb 2011 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 5 months
photo-uploadernaiveshellflickrphoto
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