Shaun Ashby
Cloud Engineer at Switch
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Ashby is a cloud and DevOps engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience architecting and automating resilient infrastructure for organizations across public clouds and on-prem environments. He specializes in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins), and has led multi-account, multi-region IaC and containerization efforts that shortened deployment cycles and improved stability. Shaun’s background spans systems programming and research-grade computing—he holds a PhD in particle physics and cut his teeth building and operating large-scale compute clusters at institutions like CERN—bringing a rigor seldom seen in operations roles. He’s pragmatic and developer-focused, helping teams adopt 12‑factor and cloud-native practices while contributing practical tooling and pipelines. Based in Geneva, he blends deep infrastructure automation with full-stack development experience across Java, Python and Go, making him effective at bridging dev and ops. Colleagues rely on him for reliably delivering scalable platforms and for turning complex infrastructure problems into repeatable, observable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Particle Physics, PhD, Particle Physics at University of BirminghamBSc (Hons), Applied Physics, BSc (Hons), Applied Physics at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
shaunashby/Desktop-Env
Apr 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:42 pushes in 7 years
shaunashby/AutoFS-LDAP
Apr 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:28 commits in 1 year
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