Rob Godfrey
Senior Technical Architect, Cloud Enablement at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Godfrey is a seasoned cloud platform leader and senior technical architect with 11 years of experience driving AWS adoption, infrastructure as code and DevOps practices at the Financial Times. He leads cloud enablement across a 70+ account AWS estate, architecting multi-account frameworks, automated provisioning and cost-visibility tooling that delivered over $900,000 in AWS savings last year. Previously he built resilient, event-driven microservice platforms and the FT’s first Content API, combining domain-driven design, CQRS and robust multi-region deployments. Comfortable both managing teams and shipping code, Rob blends hands-on engineering (Python, CloudFormation, Lambda) with governance, training and stakeholder leadership. Known for turning complex legacy systems into scalable, operational services, he pairs deep technical chops with a pragmatic focus on cost, reliability and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (2i), Computer Science and Management Studies, BSc (2i), Computer Science and Management Studies at University of NottinghamA-Levels: Maths (A), Further Maths(A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A), A-Levels: Maths (A), Further Maths(A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A) at Aylesbury Grammar School
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Github Skills (26)
aws8
boto8
qpid6
rabbitmq6
activemq-artemis6
junit6
dead-letter6
interop6
java6
jms6
apache6
amqp6
splunk5
finance5
financial5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ft-circleci-orbs/doppler-circleci-orb
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A CircleCI orb to load secrets managed in Doppler into CircleCI projects as environment variables.
Contributions:5 releases, 26 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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robgodfrey/robgodfrey.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jun 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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