Sam Milward
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Ping Identity
Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Milward is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years’ experience building and operating resilient, observable cloud platforms for high-traffic environments. A GCP Professional Cloud Architect, he has driven platform automation and Kubernetes/GKE deployments using Terraform, Anthos, Helm and GitLab CI, and has deep expertise in observability—instrumenting apps with OpenTelemetry and comparing vendors like New Relic and Splunk. His background spans hands-on software development (C#, Python, Go) and SRE tooling, complemented by certified Elasticsearch and Kibana skills used to create production-grade logging and alerting at scale. Sam brings a pragmatic blend of developer discipline (TDD, SOLID) and ops automation (Ansible, CI/CD, Docker), enabling teams to ship reliably while reducing toil. Based in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Nottingham Trent, he often surfaces non-obvious gains by turning monitoring signal into engineering priorities that improve platform efficiency and incident response.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Nottingham Trent UniversityStoke 6th Form CollegeHigh School, High School at Moorside HighshoolProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sammilward/gke-playground
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
A repository for all things to experiment with: Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform, Kubernetes Resource Model, GCP, Istio/Anthos Service Mesh
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
sammilward/SDI
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches, 26 tags in 1 year 6 months
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