Tristan Keen
Senior Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Keen is a Senior Platform Engineer based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps tooling, currently shaping platform reliability and performance at Lyst. He specialises in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker and CI/CD pipelines, having delivered large-scale environment provisioning and migration projects at Sainsbury’s and TheTrainline. Tristan’s background spans low-level C/C++ systems and high-performance Linux services from a long tenure at Experian, giving him uncommon depth across both systems engineering and modern cloud platforms. Comfortable operating as a pragmatic principal developer, he blends Agile practices with practical automation to turn infrastructure complexity into measurable business value. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in optoelectronics, he brings a research mindset to diagnosing performance bottlenecks and designing robust, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Physics, Master of Arts (MA), Physics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Optoelectronics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Optoelectronics at University of Southampton
Github Skills (200)
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argoproj10
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continuous-testing10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tyrken/spksrc
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
synologycompilationnascross-compilationnative-packages
tyrken/heatmon
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Monitor OpenTRV radiator valves
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 11 months
radiatormonitorthresholdtemperaturevalves
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