Summary
Tom Lorentsen is a DevOps Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building and guiding high-impact engineering teams across cloud-native and CI/CD landscapes. He combines deep technical fluency in Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins/CloudBees and GitHub Enterprise with strong people skills focused on developer experience, mentoring, and resource optimisation. Tom has progressed from PHP and full‑stack development into senior DevOps roles at companies like giffgaff, Worldpay and Global Relay, reflecting a practical bias for shipping reliable automation and platform tooling. He’s equally comfortable writing infrastructure as code and crafting strategic roadmaps, and has a track record of improving productivity through configuration-as-code and pipeline standardisation. Based in London with a Computer Science degree from the University of Kent, he brings a pragmatic, emotionally intelligent leadership style that helps bridge engineering execution and senior management goals.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma, Computing, BTEC National Diploma, Computing at Thanet College
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Kent