Surj Bains
Platform Engineering Manager
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSurj Bains is a Platform Engineering Manager with 9 years of recent leadership in cloud-native platforms, currently driving multi-cluster platform work at CFC after leading platform teams at NewDay. He specialises in GitOps, Crossplane, Terraform and Kubernetes, blending Infrastructure as Code with AI-powered automation to improve developer productivity, security and cost optimisation. Surj has built and operated internal developer portals (Backstage), multi-account AWS architectures, and GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD and Crossplane to make infrastructure auditable and reproducible. He routinely integrates AI agents and MCP servers into platform workflows for tasks like automated incident response, semantic runbook search, and real-time auditing—bringing ML-driven operational improvements into production. His background spans large financial and public-sector environments, giving him deep experience in compliance-sensitive, enterprise-grade delivery. Colleagues value him for combining hands-on automation with a pragmatic focus on developer enablement and operational resilience.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Business Data processing, Business Data processing at University of Northampton
English, Spanish
Github Skills (152)
container-management10
infrastructure10
harbor10
dx10
serverless10
microservices10
k8s10
faas10
charts10
containerd10
kubernetes-secrets10
helm10
pipeline10
functions-as-a-service10
lambda10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
polarpoint-io/argocd-tooling-applications
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:30 PRs, 174 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
polarpoint-io/groovy-jenkins-pipelines
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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