👋 Hello, I'm Neil

DevOps Architect | Cloud Infrastructure | PhD in Distributed Systems

I'm a Senior DevOps Eng. with over 10 years of experience designing scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure in both telecom-grade and cloud-native environments.

🔧 My background blends deep industrial research insight (PhD in distributed architectures, with awarded innovation in IoT orchestration) and hands-on operational expertise (CI/CD, hybrid cloud, SRE, and DevSecOps).

I focus on:

• 🌐 Building robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Internal Clouds APIs, Terraform, and AWS
• 🔐 Embedding security and observability at every layer (DevSecOps, monitoring, alerting)
• ⚙️ Migrating legacy infrastructure to resilient, automated systems
• 👥 Leading teams and mentoring engineers in fast-moving environments

I'm currently:

• 🛠️ Experimenting with public telco projects, cloud-native telemetry, and SRE automation
• 🚀 Exploring ideas around edge orchestration, upcoming Telco standards
• 💻 Testing 'in-development' software and hardware telco products

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🧠 Tech Stack

Cloud:        AWS · CloudFoundry · hybrid hosting · VPC · IAM · S3 · GCP
Infra-as-Code: Terraform · Ansible · 
Containers:   Docker · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · GitLab CI/CD · Prometheus · Grafana
Security:     DevSecOps · Secrets mgmt · CI/CD compliance · Open Policy Agent
Languages:    Bash · Python · Go (basics) · YAML · SQL
Mindset:      GitOps · DRY · fail-fast · automation-first