Richard Donkin
Principal IaC Platform Engineer
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRichard Donkin is a Principal IaC Platform Engineer based in Bath with nearly a decade building secure, high-availability cloud platforms for startups and scaleups across AWS, Azure and GCP. He specialises in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, TypeScript, Python, Go) and Kubernetes, automating developer workflows with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD to deliver repeatable, testable environments. His work has driven measurable outcomes like ephemeral environments for faster testing and a disaster recovery posture with a 4-hour RPO. Richard moves comfortably between hands-on engineering—designing IaC, CI/CD and secure networking—and mentoring teams on DevOps practices that reduce incident toil. He has deep experience across domains from real-time big-data and ML to regulated fintech and automotive security, often delivering platforms that scale to thousands of cores or millions of users. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic, security-minded engineer who turns complex operational requirements into auditable, automated platforms.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (189)
python10
nagios10
command-line-interface10
terraform10
automation10
sudo10
terraform-module10
ssh10
aws-security-group10
ansible10
vagrant10
graph10
silent10
aws-cli10
amazon-web-services10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rdonkin/docopts
May 2019 - May 2019
Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.
Contributions:3 commits, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 1 day
command-line-interfacedocoptinterpretershell
rdonkin/ansible-role-azure-cli
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
This role installs the Microsoft Azure CLI for Linux.
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 months
clilinuxmicrosoft-azure
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