Peter Fiddes
Customer Reliability Engineer at Jetstack
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Fiddes is a Customer Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently focused on reliability and customer-facing platform work at Jetstack. He migrated platforms from AWS to Google Cloud at SoPost, managing Kubernetes container stacks, Terraform infrastructure, Prometheus monitoring, and internal Python CLIs to streamline operations and scaling. A pragmatic DevOps engineer by trade, he brings hands-on expertise in deployment automation, certificate tooling and authentication flows—evidenced by contributions to the widely used cert-manager project improving Venafi OAuth integration. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he pairs an MEng in Mechanical Engineering with a habit of turning operational problems into reproducible, auditable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical documentation and sensible tooling that reduce toil while improving system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
St Bedes LanchesterMEng, Mechanical Engineering with Low Carbon Transport, 2:1, MEng, Mechanical Engineering with Low Carbon Transport, 2:1 at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
English
Github Skills (12)
apim10
mtls10
kubernetes10
authentication10
user-authentication10
certificate10
go10
api10
tls1210
tls1310
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 2 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the Venafi issuer integration within the cert-manager project. Their contributions involved modifying the authentication flow for the Venafi issuer to utilize the OAuth endpoint, specifically when user credentials were provided. This included updating the code to use `GetRefreshToken` and `Authenticate` methods for token retrieval and authentication and addressing related API key deprecation issues. They also made documentation updates to clarify the changes made to the authentication flow.
cert-managerletsencryptssltlscertificates
hawksight/cert-manager
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
cert-managerletsencryptsslcertificate-generationtls
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