Paul Valla
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at ThoughtWorks
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPaul Valla is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native platforms across Azure, AWS and GCP and operating managed Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE) at scale. He specializes in secure software delivery—introducing admission controllers, SBOMs and in-toto-backed workflows—and spends a large portion of his time designing IAM and security controls. Comfortable both consulting and leading product-focused teams, Paul has delivered infrastructure and SRE practices for clients across finance, retail, energy, government and tech at organisations including ThoughtWorks, Apple and Mercedes-Benz. He pairs deep tooling knowledge (Terraform, Helm, Pulumi, Docker, Spinnaker, etc.) with hands-on QA and testing experience—evident from contributions improving reliability in an open-source NodeJS web crawler. Based in Melbourne, he blends technical coaching, product thinking and pragmatic cloud adoption to help teams iterate securely and confidently in the cloud era. VERIFY YOUR INPUTS and SIGN YOUR OUTPUTS
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree in Business Informatics (MIAGE) - Joseph Fourier University Computer Science, Master’s degree in Business Informatics (MIAGE) - Joseph Fourier University Computer Science at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
French, English
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Github Skills (20)
cheerio10
javascript10
testing10
jsdom10
crawler10
nodejs10
test-automation10
http-authentication9
selenium-ide8
selenium8
expressjs7
dependency-injection6
knockout-validation6
php6
knockoutjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bda-research/node-crawler
Jul 2013 - Oct 2015
Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery ;-)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:136 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul made several contributions related to testing and improving the node-crawler project. They supported the implementation of basic HTTP authentication and modified jsdom error management. Furthermore, they added tests for malformed HTML and updated the test framework dependencies, including a switch to httpbin.org for testing. These changes suggest a focus on ensuring the crawler's reliability and functionality through comprehensive testing.
web-crawlerjqueryspidercheeriojavascript
paulvalla/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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