Justin Rowles

Southampton, United Kingdom

DevOps at Lloyds, previously The Guardian, Hive, Ordnance Survey...

Summary
I'm the go-to guy on every project I join.

I'm proficient in multiple languages, databases, deployment techniques, and AWS services. I'm
beginning to think that I may be a unicorn.

(NB for recruiters: I'm a contractor. Please don't ask me to go perm unless your job is amazing!)

Experience
DevOps at Lloyds / Tata at Lloyds Bank
2018  -  Present  (less than a year)

GDPR DevOps at The Guardian

November 2017  -  Present  (1 year 2 months)

Senior DevOps Engineer at British Gas Connected Homes

2013  -  November 2017  (4 years)
Bringing the DevOps mindset. Building the tools to deliver. Enabling the developer teams to bring
applications to the cloud in a continuous pipeline with zero-interruption deployments.

Senior Java Developer at Ordnance Survey

November 2009  -  September 2013  (3 years 11 months)
Delivered a high availability Web Map Tile Service on Amazon Web Services, providing terabytes of
data to thousands of customers 24/7/52.

It has had no downtime (scheduled or unscheduled) in three years across many deployments.

Spearheaded the OS drive into the cloud, writing the book for how to deliver HA services with
Disaster Recovery without failure or downtime.

Senior Java Developer at UBS Investment Bank

June 2009  -  November 2009  (6 months)

Senior Java Developer at BAE Systems

June 2005  -  February 2009  (3 years 9 months)
 Created an Enterprise Message Bus Java application to ... well, I'm not allowed to tell.

Education
University of Southampton
Honours, Mathematics, 1989 - 1993
University of Southampton
Honours, Physics, 1989 - 1993
Justin Rowles
Southampton, United Kingdom
DevOps at Lloyds, previously The Guardian, Hive, Ordnance Survey...

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