Wayne Shelley
DevOps Lead at British Geological Survey
West Linton, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Shelley is a DevOps Lead with 13 years at the British Geological Survey, driving the organisation’s move to self-hosted Kubernetes and end-to-end DevOps toolchains for geospatial projects across mobile, web and desktop. He combines hands-on infrastructure work (Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, ELK) with portfolio and agile project leadership, having managed teams and high-profile apps like iGeology and mySoil. Wayne has strong domain expertise in GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo) and spatial databases, and he translates scientific requirements into robust, scalable systems. He regularly scouts and trials new technologies, secures research collaborations and funding, and makes architecture decisions that balance innovation with operational maintainability. Based in West Linton, Scotland, he blends practical multi‑OS engineering with certified project management skills and a background in biology and physical geography that informs his applied, interdisciplinary approach.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
First Class Dual Honours BSc, Biology and Physical Geography, First Class Dual Honours BSc, Biology and Physical Geography at Keele University
Github Skills (75)
bare-metal10
kubernetes-cluster10
aws10
ansible9
jsdoc9
high-availability9
kubernetes9
risk-assessment8
devtools8
kubespray8
notebook8
jupyter8
risk-analysis7
kubeflow7
hazard7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wshelley/docker-icloudpd
Dec 2022 - Feb 2026
An Alpine Linux 3.16.1 container for the iCloud Photos Downloader command line utility
Contributions:6 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
downloaderdocker-imagelinuxalpine-linuxdocker
BritishGeologicalSurvey/Environmental-IoT
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:17 PRs, 48 pushes, 8 branches in 27 days
understandingnaturalinternetinternet-of-thingsiot
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