William Salt
Senior Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Salt is a Senior Platform Engineer based in London with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating and operating cloud-native platforms for high-scale and regulated environments. He specialises in building GitOps-driven Kubernetes platforms, Terraform automation across multi-account AWS estates, and end-to-end observability and SRE practices—having migrated dozens of services from ECS to EKS and helped organisations pursue SOC2 readiness. William has led teams to deliver production-grade CI/CD, incident management and zero-trust tooling, and has a track record of turning legacy or hand-built infrastructure into reusable, audited IaC. He pairs deep operational expertise (including work on an open-source Cassandra Chef cookbook) with developer-facing platform patterns that enable teams to self-serve. Notably, he has delivered mission-critical systems for everything from digital signage at global scale to air-gapped government deployments, showing a rare blend of scalability, security and pragmatic delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems & Networks, Computer Systems & Networks at University of PlymouthSimon Balle School
English
Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
embedded-reporting10
devops10
cassandra10
reporting-tools10
meter10
metric10
yaml10
javas8
java8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
michaelklishin/cassandra-chef-cookbook
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Chef cookbook for Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and DataStax agent
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on enhancing the operational aspects of the Cassandra cookbook. Their contributions included adding metrics reporting capabilities using Graphite, incorporating YAML configuration, and integrating Java libraries. They also improved the opscenter agent configuration by adding attributes for configuring the agent's directory and SSL usage. Additionally, the user resolved issues in the metrics reporter and agent configuration templates.
cookbookdseagentcassandraapache
willejs/chef-workstation
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 7 months
policycookbookmacbookmacbook-prochef
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