Tim Preece
DevOps Engineer
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Preece is a seasoned DevOps and SRE engineer with nine years in modern DevOps roles and a deep UNIX/Linux pedigree dating back to the early 1990s. He blends hands-on development, systems architecture, networking and security experience gained across government, fintech, and enterprise hosting, having led CI/CD, semantic versioning and Kubernetes delivery initiatives at organisations like Barclaycard and GDS. Tim has run his own tech company and led infrastructure for large-scale fleets (400+ servers) while also building automation in Bash, Ansible, Chef and Jenkins to streamline deployments and rollback. His background in engineering and early career as a Java developer informs a pragmatic, quality-driven approach to automation and release management. Comfortable in both consultancy and senior in-house roles, he brings rare long-term *NIX expertise alongside current cloud-native and SRE practices.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Aided Design and Manufacture, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Aided Design and Manufacture at Buckinghamshire College of Brunel UniversityOnline TrainingBTEC HND Product Design and Manufacture, BTEC HND Product Design and Manufacture at Buckinghamshire College of Brunell UniversityJava Certification, Java Certification at Sun CerificationOracle 12c Install and Upgrade Oracle Database, Oracle 12c Install and Upgrade Oracle Database at OracleMany Diploma's Software Development, Many Diploma's Software Development at Personal Training with certificationITIL Foundation, ITIL Foundation at Professional Training
English
Github Skills (54)
hadolint10
digital-identity9
lambdas9
continuous-integration8
api8
collector8
github-package-registry7
continuous-deployment7
openshift7
paas6
aws6
devops6
dockerfile6
blockchain6
verification6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mrdoodles/test-react-app
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
React App for testing GitHub workflows
Contributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 135 PRs in 1 year 3 months
reactjesttestinggithub-workflowsworkflows
govuk-one-login/ipv-cri-common-infrastructure
Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
Core Infrastructure for the Address CRI
Contributions:21 reviews, 27 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 2 months
digital-identityaddressinfrastructurecore-infrastructurecri
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