Oliver Smith
Principal Platform Engineer
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Smith is a Principal Platform Engineer based in England with 15 years’ experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise building and running Kubernetes-based systems, including authoring and testing operators in Go, and enabling self-service deployment of databases, message queues and caches across hybrid multi-cloud environments. His career spans startups to scale-ups where he’s led platform reliability, CI/CD, and automation efforts that increased throughput and resilience—such as implementing HA MySQL clusters and API performance optimisations that supported hundreds of thousands of transactions. Known for bridging developer needs and infrastructure implementation, he also brings experience building teams from the first technical hire through to senior platform roles. With an MSc in Computing and a background that began in prototyping and data workflows, he pairs practical engineering with a pragmatic focus on observability and scalable operations.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computing and Information Technology, MSc Computing and Information Technology at Northumbria UniversityBSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at Durham University
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Github Skills (20)
simpletest8
seo7
stream7
codeigniter7
xml7
php6
fuelphp6
nodejs5
testing5
javascript5
human-readable3
readable3
restful-api2
monitoring2
rest-api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
slivero/HTML5-Device-Streamer
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 2 years 11 months
phonenode-jsjavascriptweb-basednodejs
slivero/codeigniter-sitemaps
May 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 3 years 3 months
codeigniterxmlphpsitemapsautogenerate
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