--- name: Juan Barry Manual Canham contact: email: "cv@juancanham.com" website: https://cv.juancanham.com info: label: Cloud Engineer image: images/QR.png brief: | A Cloud Engineer & Developer, with experience at a variety of companies, across a range of technologies driving both technological change as well as business focused outcomes. Capable of wearing whatever hat is needed for a given job. location: city: London county: Greater London country: England region: EU countryCode: GB social: - label: Git network: Git user: jc url: http://git.juancanham.com/ - label: LinkedIn network: LinkedIn user: juan-canham-aa005a51 url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-canham-aa005a51/ - label: Github network: Github user: JuanCanham url: https://github.com/juancanham certifications: - organisation: AWS certificates: - name: Solutions Architect level: Professional logo: AWS-Solutions-Architect-Pro.png - name: DevOps level: Professional logo: AWS-DevOps-Pro.png - name: Solutions Architect level: Associate logo: AWS-Solutions-Architect-Associate.png - name: SysOps Administrator level: Associate logo: AWS-Sysops-Associate.png - name: Developer level: Associate logo: AWS-Developer-Associate.png - organisation: Google certificates: - name: Cloud Architect level: Professional logo: GCP-Cloud-Architect-Pro.png - name: Data Engineer level: Professional logo: GCP-Data-Engineer-Pro.png - name: Google Apps Deployment Specialist - organisation: Linux Professional Institute certificates: - name: LPCI-1 logo: LPCI-1.png - organisation: Salesforce certificates: - name: Force.com Developer logo: Salesforce-Platform-Developer.png - name: Administrator logo: Salesforce-administrator.png - organisation: Microsoft certificates: - name: Windows 7, Configuration level: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist employment: summary: "10+ years cloud infrastructure experience as developer, engineer, technical lead & architect" history: - employer: DPR consulting url: https://www.dpr.co.uk/ technologies: [AWS, Lambda, Typescript, React, Node, OAuth, Cognito, Dynamo, SQL, Cloudformation] position: Senior Cloud Engineer summary: Full stack developer (including support & infrastructure engineering) for multiple customer facing serverless applications. start: 2020-04 end: 2021-10 highlights: - Picked up Typescript and React and to deliver front-end improvements - Improved build pipelines, to deliver CI while pushed quality left, by enforcing linting and coverage testing - (Collectively) improved our processes significantly to much better reflect agile best practices - Built and migrated to a multi-account structure with an access account deployed entirely as configuration projects: - name: Broker ID url: https://www.brokerid.co.uk/ summary: An SSO solution for Mortgage Brokers - name: Broker ID Data url: https://data.brokerid.co.uk summary: Providing information from multiple sources for FCA regulated firms, both via a webapp and in backwards compatible extracts - name: Distribution Hub summary: A service to enable brokers to search and track multiple lender systems mortgage application on - employer: Self url: https://juancanham.com position: Open Source Developer summary: Spending a few months developing tools to make engineering in the clouds easier. And other assorted tools start: 2019-07 end: 2020-04 highlights: - Built a tool to view twitter exports - Built a website to highlight the problems with FPTP - Built a tool to monitor activity on toxic internet communities projects: - name: Offline Twitter Export Viewer summary: Simple tool to view twitter exports offline url: https://gitlab.com/RiotingPacifist/twitter-export-viewer - name: Generic AWS Saml CLI (WIP) summary: Generic SAML tool for AWS, to work with multiple providers and multiple backends using a modular pythonic design. - name: TheMajority.uk summary: Website generator combining markdown, Jinja & yaml. Also a website about proportional representation url: https://gitlab.com/TheMajority/themajority.uk - name: Subreddit Monitor summary: Serverless Python bot, to monitor subreddit activity for cross-posts and notify users - position: Cloud Systems Developer Lead summary: Worked on customer projects as a Lead/Architect and mentored a small team. employer: Cloudreach url: https://www.cloudreach.com description: | Worked on customer projects as a Tech Lead/Architect. Managed a team of 3 or 4 engineers within Cloudreach, making sure they got the most out of their role. start: 2014-03 end: 2019-07 keywords: [Leadership, Mentoring, Architect, Tech Lead] highlights: - Architect on several Enterprise engagement, at companies such as NBIM, BP, News UK, etc. - Delivered both the architecture and implementation on multiple Cloud Access models - Managed a team for 4 engineers, helping them get the most out of working for Cloudreach - Helped run a city government hackathon (TFL) projects: - name: Cloud Migration customer: Norges Bank Investment Management summary: Formed part of the CCOE supporting NBIM's datacentre exit onto immutable infrastructure in AWS description: | NBIM had an aggressive migration strategy, based on a standardised pipeline approach in order to re-platform 150 applications into immutably deployed services within 8 months. As part of the CCOE, helped build and maintain the pipeline (Cloudformation, Ansible, Packer, Jinja, Powershell) in order to achieve this. As well as support teams migrating applications, migrate applications and ensure best practices were applied at an account level. keywords: [CCOE, Deployment Pipeline, Immutable] technologies: [AWS, Packer, Cloudformation, Ansible, Jinja, Python, Windows, Linux] - name: AWS CIP customer: BP summary: Architect for BP's Cloud infrastructure Platform (AWS) description: | Architect/Tech Lead on the AWS side of BP's Cloud infrastructure Platform (CIP), responsible for - Guiding high-level goals - Interfacing with other teams and gather requirements at a technical level - Aligning high-level & mid-Level architectures - RBAC engine in a Multi-Tenanted account - Supporting the team and ensure code quality for services and customers Transitioned the project from an EC2-focused offering in 1 region, with 4 supported OSes, to a managed cloud native datacentre, offering use of 20 AWS services, across 2 regions with 6 supported OSes, as well as aligning future visions towards a many-account model. keywords: [Strategy, RBAC, Multi-Tenanted, Platform, Shared Services, Landing Zone, Multi-Region] technologies: [AWS, IAM, Cloudformation, Windows, Linux, Python] - name: Multi Cloud Lab Vending Engine customer: Cloudreach summary: Replace Long lived Multi-User Labs with an on-demand Multi Cloud Lab Vending Engine description: | Transformed shared per-cloud lab accounts, into an SSO integrated multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) on-demand vending engine, improving security, while reducing cost and increasing accountability. In addition for pushing for the change on the business side, designed the API for integrating with the serverless per-cloud solutions, implement the central orchestration workflows in Google Apps script (JavaScript), Wrote the serverless wrapper (python) that provided the link between AWS's Landing Zone product and the orchestrator. keywords: [Multi-cloud, Strategy, Portal, Landing Zone, Multi-Account, Serverless, SSO, API Design] technologies: [AWS, Azure, GCP, Account Vending Engine, JavaScript, Stateless, Python, Lambda, SAM] - name: TFL hackathon customer: TFL summary: Helped Run and Judge TFL Active Travel Hackathon description: | Provided expertise for teams making use of AWS while building solutions using TFL, Met Office & Ordinance Survey's APIs. keywords: [AWS, Hackathon, APIs] technologies: [AWS] - name: Pearson Governance Framework and Prototype customer: Pearson summary: Designed and prototyped Pearson's AWS governance strategy description: | Produced a cloud adoption and governance strategy, to reduce the unmanaged spend across 100+ accounts. Provided a design for account structure, access, networking, security, monitoring, cost allocation and deployment. Led team building a serverless monitoring and triage framework (similar to cloud guardian/current AWS whitepapers), and target account creation and hardening. keywords: [Strategy, Multi-Tenanted, Platform, Shared Services, Landing Zone, Serverless] technologies: [AWS, Cloudformation, Windows, Linux, Python] - position: Role Owner (Cloud Systems Developers) summary: Worked with the leadership team to improve the System Developers role. employer: Cloudreach url: https://www.cloudreach.com description: | Worked with the leadership team to improve the System Developers role. This included both technical tooling and non-technical initiatives. start: 2016-06 end: 2019-07 keywords: [Strategy, Vision, Internal, Personal Development] highlights: - Helped Engineers get improve their technical skills though a hands-on training workshop program - Trained and mentored multiple sets of graduates projects: - name: Personal Growth workshops summary: Introduced monthly hands-on training workshops. description: | By using in-house experts, to deliver 1/2 day, regional hands-on, realistic, workshops, the program gives engineers a chance to use emerging technologies on realistic use cases, rather than under idea situations. For example, it's easy to setup a Kubernetes demo, but most introductions, don't cover dealing with sidecars and statefull containers. The workshops also gave experienced team engineers a change to showcase their skills and produce content for our knowledgebase. As the workshops were run separately it was also an opportunity for the American and European offices to collaborate on training materials, without having to deal with time-zones for the delivery. keywords: [Personal Development, Training, Strategy, DevOps] - name: Graduate/FastTrack Trainer/coordinator summary: Involved in the delivery of 6 Fast Track training programs. description: | The Graduate/Fast Track program was a 8-10 week training course initially for recent graduates and later for anybody keen to retrain and start working in cloud based DevOps. Responsible for at least one, two week course on either AWS or infrastructure as code, in every program, as the cloud computing progresses rapidly this meant refreshing course materials and delivering, a hands-on course to groups of 6-20. In addition to delivering the training also worked with the leadership team and managers to ensure graduates were placed onto appropriate projects. keywords: [Personal Development, Training] technologies: [AWS, IaC] - name: Interview Process update summary: Responsible for refining and updating the interview process description: | Refined the interview process through two major iterations, First standardising the process across all our European and American offices, being more prescriptive in terms of scoring. The second introduced somewhat objective scoring criteria, while still giving interviewers enough scope to keywords: [Interviews, Metrics] - name: Unified Chatroom system & Knowledge base summary: Helped establish a company wide unified Chatroom system & Knowledge base. description: | Standardising the company on a single chat and knowledge base, made it much easier for new colleagues to get up to speed. Most of this was focusing on making the case for unifying the tooling (in this case Slack and Atlassian), making sure there was a path forward for all the teams involved that wasn't seen as a regression was important. The end result was much more cross-department knowledge sharing, mostly along technical lines, however it also helped organise events (both globally and office specific). keywords: [ChatOps, Knowledge Sharing] technologies: [Slack] - position: Internal hackathons/skunkworks Developer employer: Cloudreach url: https://www.cloudreach.com start: 2012-02 end: 2019-07 highlights: - Built Automated tanks that used image recognition to move and fire at each other. - Built various useful internal tools, that remained in use for years - Built a variety of IaC tools, that made deployments easier - Won a trip to Central America - Had project open sourced externally, by somebody that found it useful projects: - name: piRobotWars summary: Automated tanks that used image recognition to move and fire at each other. technologies: [Rekognition, RaspberryPi, Soldering, Python, Lambda] - name: Calify summary: Room booking system, based on Google calendar and android. technologies: [Android, Java, Google Apps] - name: Cloudformation Supremacy Engine summary: Tools to facilitate better deployment of Cloudformation technologies: [Python, Terraform, Cloudformation] - name: Serverless Sceptre summary: Tool for event driven Cloudformation deployments technologies: [Lamda, IaC, Cloudformation, Python] - name: Address Book, Contact sync, Holiday booking system summary: Google apps automation used internally for booking holidays and syncing to mobile devices technologies: [Google Apps, JavaScript] - name: MusicBox summary: Various iterations of the Office jukebox systems technologies: [RaspberryPi, Musicbox, Mopidy, JavaScript] - position: Cloud Systems Developer employer: Cloudreach url: https://www.cloudreach.com summary: Worked on technical projects on AWS, Google Apps & Salesforce both individually and as part of a team. start: 2012-02 end: 2014-03 highlights: - Worked across 3 cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Salesforce) - Delivered difficult Google 2 Google migrations on tight deadlines projects: - name: Salesforce Roll-out for Media Group customer: Heymarket summary: Re-implemented their sales processes in Salesforce and configured production & sandbox accounts description: | Part of the team doing the initial roll out to replace legacy CRM systems, did the initial requirements gathering, then matched the existing processes to those of Salesforce to fully automate the process for transforming digital media leads to cash. This involved both customising Salesforce objects/processes and writing apex triggers and classes (along with the tests required by the platform). keywords: [Processes] technologies: [Salesforce, Apex, SOQL] - name: Cross Team Support at a Large Media company customer: News UK description: | Working as the cloud lead systems engineer inside a large media corporation, supported the infrastructure for all products being developed by partners on AWS, as well as the build servers used to support those (and other) deployments. Alongside supporting the running development environments, developed and rolled out a unified platform & development kit to simplify application and infrastructure, build, deployment, monitoring and support, while reducing the overall support burden at the company by, helping other teams standardise on the platform where practical. - name: Google to Google Migrations customer: Various (Milkround, News UK, etc) summary: Helped migrate various customers between Google Apps accounts description: | Due to limitations in the Google Apps platform, the source account had to be completely deleted prior to the end of the migration, this means the entire migration had to be completed, including fixes and validation of data within about 60 hours. When combined with the user facing nature of mail migrations, this resulted in particularly difficult migrations, with tight deadlines keywords: [Migration, User Facing] technologies: [Google Apps, Python, AWS] - name: Google Migrations customer: Various (Jamie Oliver group, Graze, etc) summary: Helped migrate various customers between Google Apps accounts keywords: [Migration, User Facing] technologies: [Google Apps, Python, AWS] - name: Teletext Holidays Optimisation customer: Teletext Holidays summary: Provided guidance and recommendations for frontend optimisation of the Teletext Holidays website keywords: [Frontend, Web, Optimisation] technologies: [JavaScript, Web] - employer: Supporttree position: Support Engineer summary: Full support for small businesses including end user systems, on-premise servers and cloud services. description: | Providing 1st to 3rd line support of Desktops (Windows and OS X) for small businesses. In addition to end-user support, also implemented several projects & pushed for automation whenever possible. start: 2010-01 end: 2012-02 url: http://supporttree.co.uk technologies: [Windows, OS X, Linux, Networking] highlights: - Worked in a user facing role, for a variety of small businesses - Made use of automation and unix, in an otherwise manual windows environment education: level: Bachelor [incomplete] history: - institution: UCL title: Bachelor Natural Sciences (Physics & Chemistry) [incomplete] start: 2006-09 end: 2009-07 - institution: King's School Grantham title: A-Levels start: 2004-09 end: 2006-07 grade: AAAAA curriculum: - Maths - Further Maths - Physics - Chemistry - Spanish skills: levels: [Novice, Basic, Moderate, Knowledgeable, Skilled] sets: - name: Programming level: Skilled skills: - name: Python level: Skilled summary: Primary language used for most projects - name: Ruby level: Skilled summary: Primary language used for some projects, also often used as part of Chef or other tools used within projects - name: Bash level: Skilled summary: Used extensively for system automation - name: JavaScript level: Knowledgeable summary: Experience with both frontend development and Node to deliver automation - name: Apex/Java level: Basic summary: Primary language used for Salesforce development - name: Other Languages level: Novice summary: Powershell, Vbs, batch, PHP, Perl, C, C# - name: AWS level: Skilled skills: - name: Cloudformation level: Skilled summary: Both natively and via Troposphere, Jinja & ruby-DSL - name: IAM level: Skilled summary: Extensive knowledge in building secured multi-tenanted accounts - name: Lambda level: Knowledgeable summary: Used extensively with both Python & JavaScript as part of stand-alone components & complex frameworks - name: DynamoDB level: Knowledgeable summary: Used in-depth to store state for lambda, whenever S3 was not viable - name: Core AWS services level: Skilled summary: Have used EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, Cloudwatch, Config, ElastiCache, etc, extensively - name: Additional AWS services level: Knowledgeable summary: Have used other services such as Direct Connect, CodeDeploy, AppStream, etc - name: DevOps tools and methodologies level: Skilled skills: - name: IaC level: Skilled summary: Always used Infrastructure as Code (IaC), primarily native tools, but also Terraform when needed - name: Immutability level: Skilled summary: Designed and implemented immutable systems - name: Configuration Management level: Skilled summary: Extensive use of configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible when needed - name: TDD - Infrastructure level: skilled summary: Used test driven development (TDD) on most greenfield projects and also gradually retrofitted to legacy infrastructure - name: TDD - Application level: Moderate - name: Build systems level: skilled summary: Always used Build systems (Jenkins, AnthillPro, Code*, Gitlab, etc) - name: Containers level: Knowledge summary: Familiar with immutable image pipelines and methodologies - name: Init systems level: Knowledgeable summary: Used Upstart/SystemD/SysV/Monit as required, in particular use of signals/sockets when possible - name: Agile level: Moderate summary: Used both within Small companies and adapted Larger Enterprise - name: Google level: Knowledgeable skills: - name: GCP level: Moderate summary: Developed high level account strategies for GCP - name: Google deployment manager level: Moderate summary: Developed transformation tool using Google Deployment Manager - name: Google App Engine level: Moderate summary: Some use as part of projects, primarily in Python - name: Google Apps level: Skilled summary: Extensive use as part of Google Apps projects - name: Salesforce level: Moderate skills: - name: Apex level: Moderate summary: Experience writing both small classes and triggers - name: Configuration level: Basic summary: Experience configuring Salesforce estates as per customer requirements languages: - language: English fluency: Native - language: Spanish fluency: Native interests: - name: Open Source & Linux - name: Travelling - name: Punk Rock, Politics & the Pub meta: format: FRESH@1.0.0 version: 0.0.1