Will McGregor , London, United Kingdom

I am driven by a genuine interest in the technology that powers automated and scalable
infrastructure, and in processes that increase engineering effectiveness. Highly focused but
easy going; I enjoy the work I do. I can learn new tools and methods quickly and I do so both
inside and outside of work.

In my current role I have gained extensive experience with high-scale, globally distributed
services. Providing strategic direction, I have been responsible for initiating and as tech lead
implementing a number of projects that have brought architectural improvements and
significant cost savings to Skimlinks. This included planning and overseeing a migration from
AWS to GCP as well as containerising existing applications.


Technical and Practical Skills

● Highly experienced with most aspects of both AWS and GCP.
● Comfortable writing infrastructure automation and tooling in Python, Golang or Bash.
● Experience in designing, maintaining and optimising globally distributed high-traffic
web services, including;
○ Services handling billions of requests per day running in kubernetes and on
instances in AWS/GCP.
○ Infrastructure to ship and aggregate terabytes of daily logs to centralised
location for processing.
○ Multi-terabyte globally replicated MySQL instances
● Kubernetes - migrating, deploying, managing applications and clusters in GKE.
● Practical experience of migrating services from bare metal to cloud instances to
kubernetes and from AWS to GCP.
● Puppet - Managing a large autoscaling server fleet across multiple regions with hot
standby.
● Creating tooling to improve developer efficiency and the reliability and repeatability of
releases.
● Designing monitoring, logging and alerting systems using prometheus, Grafana,
InfluxDB, Stackdriver, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty and Nagios (Icinga).
● Many years of oncall and last line of support experience.
● Implementation of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
● Intuitive problem solver.
● Extensive practical knowledge of Linux.