Rhys Powell
Senior Black Belt - Managed Cloud Solutions at St Leonards Primary school
Stafford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRhys Powell is a pragmatic cloud-native engineering leader with 13+ years building secure, cost-conscious platforms and pipelines across startups and enterprises, now shaping managed cloud solutions at Red Hat. A generalist who dives deep when it matters, he architects immutable infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms and DevSecOps tooling while balancing architecture, security and run-costs. He’s led and grown teams—managing platform and data engineering groups, creating graduate training programs, and mentoring engineers toward long-term careers. Hands-on with Python (and occasional Go/Rust), his open-source contributions include Python code challenges and utility notebooks that reflect a tinkerer’s curiosity. Comfortable moving monoliths to microservices and automating repeatable delivery with IaC, he’s equally at home advising on roadmaps or rebuilding clusters and observability stacks. Outside work he invests in community governance and youth development, bringing practical leadership from enterprise strategy down to the command line.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons), Computer Science, Bsc (Hons), Computer Science at London Metropolitan UniversityONC Mechanical Manufacturing Gwent Tertiary CollegeCertificate in Full Stack Web Development, Computer Science, Certificate in Full Stack Web Development, Computer Science at freeCodeCampGCSE's, Various, GCSE's, Various at West Monmouth ComprehensiveHND Business and Finance University Wales CollegeHNC Mechanical Manufacturing University of Glamorgan PassBSc Computer Science (HONS), BSc Computer Science (HONS) at 2006 Prince 2 Foundation
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Github Skills (6)
coding10
python10
ch10
data-structures8
data-structure8
itertools7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pybites/challenges
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rhys made several contributions focused on code challenges within the `pybites/challenges` repository. Their work included implementing and testing Python functions for word value calculations, incorporating dictionary lookups, and developing game logic related to Scrabble-like word puzzles. They also integrated contributions from the community and submitted an unrelated notebook containing image watermarking using Pillow.
codechallengespythonpybites
rhyspowell/BGS-Tally-v3
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:81 releases, 42 commits, 97 pushes in 24 days
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