Ross Fairbanks
Lead Platform Engineer
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRoss Fairbanks is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Barcelona with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and GitOps tooling (Flux), and has focused on observability and scalable platform patterns across EKS, Prometheus and serverless. As a tech lead for the CNCF TAG on Environmental Sustainability and contributor to an energy-consumption metrology agent, he blends production-grade platform engineering with a practical interest in making systems more sustainable. His career spans founding and leadership roles as well as long-form platform work at Giant Swarm and Flatpeak, showing both entrepreneurial grit and operational discipline. Known for translating complex requirements into robust architectures, he pairs systems integration and technical architecture skills with pragmatic application development. Fluent in cross-border, multidisciplinary teams, he often surfaces less-obvious wins such as tuning container runtime compatibility and timestamping for better energy metering in orchestrated environments.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc (Hons) Computer Studies, 2:1 BSc (Hons) Computer Studies at Liverpool John Moores University
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Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
containerd10
rust10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
prometheus9
docker9
virtual-machine8
systemd8
automations7
automation7
kubeadm6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hubblo-org/scaphandre
Jan 2021 - May 2022
⚡ Energy consumption metrology agent. Let "scaph" dive and bring back the metrics that will help you make your systems and applications more sustainable !
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 13 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on improving the compatibility of the energy consumption metrology agent with containerized environments. They implemented fixes to support Kubernetes pods using containerd and kubelets using the systemd cgroup driver. The user also addressed issues related to timestamping for Kubernetes pod checks and made general code formatting adjustments. Their contributions appear centered around enhancing the agent's ability to monitor energy consumption in modern, containerized orchestration systems.
vagrantfileenergy-consumptionesxicryptanalysiswattmeter
rossf7/wikireverse
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Hadoop jobs for WikiReverse project. Parses Common Crawl data for links to Wikipedia articles.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 7 months
crawlwikipediacommon-crawllinkshadoop
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