Richard Gee
Lead Platform Operations Manager
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Gee is a seasoned platform and cloud engineering leader with 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale AWS platforms and DevOps automation for public sector and media organisations. As Lead Platform Operations Manager at HMRC he combines hands-on engineering (Go, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, containers) with team-focused ways of working to drive elastic multi-account AWS adoption and dramatically reduce operational lead times. He has a strong practical background in capacity, performance and tooling from a decade supporting complex estates at Fujitsu, and has repeatedly shipped developer-facing automation that improves build, deployment and installability. An active open-source contributor, Richard has improved build pipelines and multi-architecture support for well-known projects such as OpenFaaS and arkade, including HMAC-signed artifacts and automated image workflows. He’s pragmatic, metrics-driven and skilled at turning operational pain points into self-service platforms that scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Heritage Community SchoolProfessional Quaification Institute of Quarrying (IoQ), Professional Quaification Institute of Quarrying (IoQ) at Doncaster CollegeBEng (Hons) - 1st Internet Engineering, BEng (Hons) - 1st Internet Engineering at Aston University
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
docker10
k3s10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
sh10
automations10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/faas-cli
Jul 2017 - Sep 2022
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 34 commits, 33 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the `faas-cli` project by implementing new features and improving the build process. They added functionalities such as recursive file copying and squash flags for Docker builds, enhancing the CLI's build capabilities. The user also addressed integration issues by amending the installation script and store deployment, as well as improving the user experience by adding the ability to run `get.sh` as a non-root user. Further, the user was instrumental in improving the build process with build artifact hashing and adding HMAC signatures to the invoke command.
golanglambdapythonfaas-clitemplating
openfaas/faas
May 2017 - Feb 2020
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Role in this project:DevOps & Automation Engineer
DevOps & Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits, 34 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the OpenFaaS project. They updated the CI configuration to include automatic builds for the authentication module and created a script for pushing images. The user also refactored and consolidated deployment scripts for different architectures and added a mechanism for generating SHA256 hashes for watchdog binaries. These changes aimed to streamline build processes, improve image management, and support various hardware architectures.
serverlessaws-lambdaprometheusawslambda
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