Rob Best
Staff Solutions Architect at Chainguard
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRob Best is a Staff Solutions Architect with 11 years of hands-on SRE/DevOps experience building and operating scalable cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes. He combines deep Linux and configuration-management expertise (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform) with practical CI/CD and observability skills (Jenkins, Prometheus, ELK), routinely turning complex platform needs into automated, auditable pipelines. Having progressed through senior engineering and consulting roles at Jetstack and Chainguard, he brings both customer-facing architecture experience and production reliability know-how. A pragmatic developer in Go and Python, Rob has a track record of improving platform resilience and delivery velocity—often by codifying operational best practices into reusable infrastructure. An unlikely background in political science informs his clear communication and stakeholder alignment when architecting technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Political Science at University of Leeds
English
Github Skills (178)
prometheus-exporter10
security10
gatekeeper10
aws-s310
governance10
opa10
monitoring10
automated-deployment10
hashicorp10
ignition10
validation10
kubernetes10
code-signing10
certificate10
prometheus10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
utilitywarehouse/vault-manifests
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Kustomize base manifests for vault
Contributions:15 releases, 2 reviews, 88 commits in 2 years
kustomizevaultkubernetesdep-vaultuw-owner-system
jetstack/dependency-track-exporter
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 50 reviews, 28 commits in 9 months
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