Rafal Hollins
Lead Cloud Architect at Lancashire Insurance Group
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRafal Hollins is a Lead Cloud Architect with deep expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native data platforms, bringing around 25 years of domain experience in financial services and insurance and nine years focused on cloud and DevOps leadership. He has designed and migrated highly available, compliant platforms—spanning PAAS/SAAS, AKS, Azure PostgreSQL and low-latency ML time-series solutions—for regulated firms and government digital services. Known for turning legacy systems into cost‑effective, scalable architectures, he pairs hands-on tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus) with strategic cloud governance and cost optimization. Rafal blends infrastructure-as-code discipline with practical ML hosting (JupyterHub on Kubernetes) and platform automation to accelerate delivery across cross-functional teams. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines a strong academic foundation in software engineering with a knack for rapid, risk-aware transformation in mission-critical environments.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering and Databases, Master's degree, Software Engineering and Databases at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Github Skills (182)
controller10
terraform10
azure10
azure-resource-manager10
azure-kubernetes-service10
kubernetes-service10
terraform-provider10
plugin10
resource-manager10
charts9
linux9
helm9
shell9
fluxcd9
powershell9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hmcts/chart-fluentbit-log
May 2019 - Jun 2019
fluentbit-log Helm chart
Contributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 4 PRs in 19 days
charthelmhelm-charthelm-chartskubernetes
rhollins/Main
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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