Oliver Leaver-smith
DevOps Engineering Consultant at Sheffield Devops
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Leaver-smith is a DevOps Engineering Consultant with 11 years of experience helping organisations scale reliability, velocity, and clarity across global engineering teams. Currently driving DevOps performance and DORA-led improvements at HSBC, he combines hands-on platform engineering and incident reduction experience from roles at Sky Betting & Gaming and Betfair with a startup mindset honed as the first DevOps hire at IntelliAM. He has a proven track record of cutting incident rates, building resilient cloud platforms, and formalising operations practice through ITIL and automation. Based in Sheffield, he organises the local DevOps community and brings a pragmatic mix of network, security, and operations expertise that spans from managing thousands of servers to shaping engineering culture. Notably, his background in journalism helps him translate complex technical metrics into clear, actionable guidance for stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education (Merit) Journalism, Diploma of Higher Education (Merit) Journalism at Sheffield Hallam UniversityA2 Level English Language Politics German ICT and General Studies, A2 Level English Language Politics German ICT and General Studies at Notre Dame 6th Form
Github Skills (151)
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jekyll10
react10
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incident-management9
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docker9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sheffielddevops/sheffielddevops.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 118 pushes, 21 branches in 6 years
muggahtee/fd-slack
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 97 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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