Summary
Oliver Mcpheely is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient, cost-efficient cloud architectures across startups and large enterprises. He co-founded and single-handedly built Numbers Game, a data- and ML-driven football prediction platform serving 100k+ monthly users, demonstrating strong full-stack and infrastructure ownership using AWS, Serverless Framework, IaC and EMR on EKS. His background spans banking-grade reliability at Barclays and SRE for an African neo-bank, plus platform work for genomics research environments, giving him deep expertise in AWS, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD and automation. Based in Manchester, he blends software development instincts with platform engineering discipline to keep systems low-maintenance and secure, and he often emphasizes automation to scale lean teams and projects. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of building production-ready infrastructure as a solo developer for high-traffic services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Newcastle University
Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College