juan-canham-resume/resume.json

{"name": "Juan Barry Manual Canham", "contact": {"email": "cv@juancanham.com", "website": "https://cv.juancanham.com"}, "info": {"label": "Cloud \"DevOps\" Engineer", "image": "images/QR.png", "brief": "A Pragmatic Cloud \"DevOps\" Engineer, with experience at a variety of companies, across a range of technologies\ndriving both technological change as well as business focused outcomes.\nCapable of wearing whatever hat is needed for a given job, primarily working as both:\n* an architect, aligning the technical solutions to the customers requirements\n* a technical lead, both delivering code and guiding/mentoring/supporting teams as required.\n"}, "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": "9+ years cloud infrastructure experience as engineer, technical lead & architect", "history": [{"employer": "Self", "url": "https://juancanham.com", "technologies": ["Cloud", "AWS", "GCP", "Azure", "SSO", "Open Source"], "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", "highlights": ["Quickly Built a tool to view twitter exports", "Begun work on a module", "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/RitoingPacifst/offline-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.\nManaged a team of 3 or 4 engineers within Cloudreach, making sure they got the most out of their role at Cloudreach,\naligning the individuals personal development plans both with Cloudreach's goals and their longer term career trajectories.\nIt was particularly rewarding was getting team members of promoted to Tech-lead level.\n", "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\nre-platform 150 applications into immutably deployed services within 8 months.\nAs part of the CCOE, helped build and maintain the pipeline (Cloudformation, Ansible, Packer, Jinja,\nPowershell) in order to achieve this.\nAs well as support teams migrating applications, migrate applications and ensure best practices were\napplied at an account level.\n", "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\n  - Guiding high-level goals\n  - Interfacing with other teams and gather requirements at a technical level\n  - Aligning high-level & mid-Level architectures\n  - RBAC engine in a Multi-Tenanted account\n  - Supporting the team and ensure code quality for services and customers\nTransitioned the project from an EC2-focused offering in 1 region, with 4 supported OSes,\nto a managed cloud native datacentre, offering use of 20 AWS services, across 2 regions with 6 supported OSes,\nas well as aligning future visions towards a many-account model.\n", "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)\non-demand vending engine, improving security, while reducing cost and increasing accountability.\nIn addition for pushing for the change on the business side, designed the API for integrating with\nthe serverless per-cloud solutions,\nimplement the central orchestration workflows in Google Apps script (JavaScript),\nWrote the serverless wrapper (python) that provided the link between AWS's Landing Zone product and the\norchestrator.\n", "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 &\nOrdinance Survey's APIs.\n", "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.\nProvided a design for account structure, access, networking, security, monitoring, cost allocation and deployment.\nLed team building a serverless monitoring and triage framework (similar to cloud guardian/current AWS whitepapers),\nand target account creation and hardening.\n", "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.\nThis included both technical tooling and non-technical initiatives, processes, such as training programs,\ninterview processes and the graduate program.\n", "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,\nthe program gives engineers a chance to use emerging technologies on realistic use cases, rather than under idea situations.\nFor example, it's easy to setup a Kubernetes demo, but most introductions, don't cover dealing with sidecars and statefull containers.\nThe workshops also gave experienced team engineers a change to showcase their skills and produce content for our knowledgebase.\nAs the workshops were run separately it was also an opportunity for the American and European offices to collaborate\non training materials, without having to deal with time-zones for the delivery.\n", "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\nand later for anybody keen to retrain and start working in cloud based DevOps.\nResponsible for at least one, two week course on either AWS or infrastructure as code, in every program,\nas the cloud computing progresses rapidly this meant refreshing course materials and delivering,\na hands-on course to groups of 6-20.\nIn addition to delivering the training also worked with the leadership team and managers to ensure\ngraduates were placed onto appropriate projects.\n", "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,\nFirst standardising the process across all our European and American offices,\nbeing more prescriptive in terms of scoring.\nThe second introduced somewhat objective scoring criteria, while still giving interviewers enough scope to\n", "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\nspeed. Most of this was focusing on making the case for unifying the tooling (in this case Slack and Atlassian),\nmaking sure there was a path forward for all the teams involved that wasn't seen as a regression was important.\nThe end result was much more cross-department knowledge sharing, mostly along technical lines,\nhowever it also helped organise events (both globally and office specific).\n", "keywords": ["ChatOps", "Knowledge Sharing"], "technologies": ["Slack"]}]}, {"position": "Internal hackathons/skunkworks Developer", "summary": "While at Cloudreach, worked on various spikes and hackathons", "employer": "Cloudreach", "url": "https://www.cloudreach.com", "description": "Used various competitions and opportunities to build prototypes to demonstrate feasibility of tools,\nas they were built over short periods of time, they were not production ready,\nhowever they worked and often fed into the approaches used in projects.\n", "start": "2012-02", "end": "2019-07", "keywords": ["hackathon"], "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,\nthen matched the existing processes to those of Salesforce to fully automate the process for transforming\ndigital media leads to cash.\nThis involved both customising Salesforce objects/processes and writing apex triggers and classes\n(along with the tests required by the platform).\n", "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,\nsupported the infrastructure for all products being developed by partners on AWS,\nas well as the build servers used to support those (and other) deployments.\nAlongside supporting the running development environments,\ndeveloped and rolled out a unified platform & development kit to simplify application and\ninfrastructure, build, deployment, monitoring and support,\nwhile reducing the overall support burden at the company by,\nhelping other teams standardise on the platform where practical.\n"}, {"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\nmigration, this means the entire migration had to be completed, including fixes and validation of data within about 60 hours.\nWhen combined with the user facing nature of mail migrations, this resulted in particularly difficult migrations,\nwith tight deadlines\n", "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),\nServer (physical and virtualised) & Services (in-house and cloud based) for small businesses.\nIn addition to end-user support, also implemented several projects.\nWhile the main toolkit for automation was Kaseya's custom DSL, pushed for automation whenever possible,\nusually making use of either custom code or portable GNU tools.\n", "start": "2010-01", "end": "2012-02", "url": "https://supporttree.co.uk", "keywords": ["User Facing"], "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": ["Python", "Ruby", "Bash", "JavaScript", "Apex/Java", "Other Languages"]}, {"name": "AWS", "level": "Skilled", "skills": ["Cloudformation", "IAM", "Lambda", "DynamoDB", "Core AWS services", "Additional AWS services"]}, {"name": "DevOps tools and methodologies", "level": "Skilled", "skills": ["IaC", "Immutability", "Configuration Management", "TDD - Infrastructure", "TDD - Application", "Build systems", "Containers", "Init systems", "Agile"]}, {"name": "Google", "level": "Knowledgeable", "skills": ["GCP", "Google deployment manager", "Google App Engine", "Google Apps"]}, {"name": "Salesforce", "level": "Moderate", "skills": ["Apex", "Configuration"]}], "list": [{"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": "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": "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": "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": "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"}}