Hi, I am Josh

Josh Myers

DevOps Engineer at Alt Scale.

Platform engineer focused on building robust automated systems and tooling.

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AWS logging pipeline

The problem space Back in the day, a logging pipeline was a pretty manual thing to setup and manage. Yes, configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet made this somewhat easier, but you still had to run your own ELK stack (OK, it didn’t have to be ELK, but it probably was, right?) and somehow get logs in there in a robust way. You’d probably be using some kind of buffer for the logs between source and your ELK stack.

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Clients

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Disney+

Dec 2019 - Present, London, UK

Helping Disney+ scale for multi region rollout

Responsibilities:
  • Improving application/infastructure deployments
  • CloudFormation to Terraform migration
  • Improving automation
  • CI/CD Jenkins/Atlantis workflows
  • Monitoring
CloudPosse

Dec 2018 - Present, Los Angeles, CA

A DevOps Professional Services company whose sole purpose is to help high-growth Startups and Fortune 500 Companies adopt and leverage cloud-based solutions to gain the upper hand and maximize their return on investment.

Responsibilities:
  • Terraform open-source modules
  • Working with end clients to deliver DevOps solutions
  • TechStack - Terraform/k8s/Helm/Prometheus/go/Make/Bash/Docker/CodeFresh
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10x Future Technologies

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019, London, UK

OpenCredo consultant working for 10x Banking

Responsibilities:
  • Helped deliver multi cluster Kubernetes PII/non-PII environments
HSBC

Mar 2019 - Jul 2019, London, UK

AirWalk consultant working on the HSBC Cloud Solutions team.

Responsibilities:
  • Delivered a scaleable AWS based logging pipeline to transfer logs from AWS environments back to on prem Splunk. This has been an ongoing project for 2 years that had no chance of being delivered by the deadline. It was completely rewritten from the ground up and delivered in ~3 months.
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Klarna

Mar 2018 - Dec 2018, London, UK / Stockholm, SWE

EqualExperts consultant helping the organisation build out the external data services capabilities in preparation for increased load over the “Black Friday” weekend. These are highly performant, AAA rated systems absolutely critical for the business operating model. Mainly focusing on CI/CD, building out infra and monitoring. 99th percentiles were critical as requests must return within 200ms.

Responsibilities:
  • External data lookup Infrastructure
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitoring
Government Digital Service

Apr 2015 - Nov 2017, London, UK

Working on critical national infrastructure for GOV.UK

Sep 2016 - Nov 2017

Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

  • Working on GOV.UK infastructure team
  • Migrated GOV.UK between cloud providers with no downtime.
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