Peter Bale
Head Of Platform Infrastructure
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Bale is a Head of Platform Infrastructure with 11 years of hands-on software and platform engineering experience, now leading global infrastructure strategy for products like Peacock, NOW and SkyShowtime. He began as a DevOps engineer on NOW TV, helped build a multi-tenant Kubernetes PaaS on AWS, and progressed through technical leadership roles to manage and mentor over 20 engineers across delivery teams. Comfortable at code-level detail, he translates complex cloud-native architectures into clear direction for non-technical stakeholders while driving resilient, automated CI/CD and platform reliability. An active contributor to external-dns (notably improving AWS provider batching and health evaluation), he combines pragmatic open-source contributions with enterprise-scale delivery. Known for balancing engineering-first principles with stakeholder-facing delivery, he seeks continuous learning and high-impact challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, BSc (Hons) Mathematics at University of PortsmouthInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at The Royal High School
English
Github Skills (10)
route5310
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
ingress5
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the AWS provider functionality within the external-dns project, adding features and improving existing ones. They implemented features like setting a maximum change count and evaluating target health for AWS Route53 records. Additionally, the user modified the batching logic for AWS updates, improving the sync process. Furthermore, the user added new tests to cover the new batching logic.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
peterbale/go-phpipam
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
phpIPAM Golang Library
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 18 commits in 1 year 1 month
golanggolang-libraryphp82phpipam
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