Robin Bowes
Operations Engineering Manager
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Bowes is an Operations Engineering Manager with 21 years of hands-on experience building and running reliable cloud and DevOps platforms across startups and large enterprises from York, UK. He has led SRE and operations teams at Treasure Data and now Synadia, and has deep practical expertise in Terraform, Puppet, automation and multi-environment infrastructure design. A former director of a DevOps consultancy and long-time practitioner, he blends people leadership with day-to-day engineering — often rolling up his sleeves to refactor tooling and fix tricky automation bugs. His open-source contributions include improving pre-commit Terraform hooks to pass args/env vars and enhance terraform fmt and terraform_docs workflows, reflecting a focus on developer-friendly infrastructure. He combines formal computing education with a broad operational career that spans cloud migrations, CI/CD, and long-lived service reliability.
20 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate Diploma Computer Science, Post-graduate Diploma Computer Science at The University of SalfordEasingwold School, Easingwold, York
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
automation10
bash10
automations10
terraform10
git-hooks10
git9
code-standards8
styles8
coding-style8
json6
jq6
aws-cli6
amazon-web-services6
terragrunt5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform
May 2018 - Oct 2021
pre-commit git hooks to take care of Terraform configurations 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of Terraform-related processes within the repository. They implemented features for passing arguments and environment variables to Terraform commands, enhancing the flexibility of the hooks. Additionally, the user refactored code to leverage a shared `lib_getopt` library and addressed various bug fixes, particularly within the `terraform_docs` hook, thereby improving the overall functionality and maintainability of the pre-commit hooks. Furthermore, this user enabled the ability to pass arguments to `terraform fmt`, enhancing the workflow.
code-stylegit-hookspre-committerragruntterraform-cloud
robinbowes/pssh
Oct 2010 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 1 month
golangsshparallel-sshparallel
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