Finder is a global comparison site with over 2 million monthly active users and is available here
- Supported a global high traffic site with over 2 million monthly active users handling over 100 million requests a month over multiple services
- Responsibilities included site reliability, enhancing developer experience, infrastructure and service optimization
- Working with multiple technologies and languages such as Kubernetes, BuildKite, NodeJS, Prometheus, Traefik, Nats, Stan, New Relic, DataDog, ECS, EKS, RDS, ASM, Kibana, ElasticSearch, PHP, Bash, Java, JavaScript and Go
- Supported the launch of the new Finder App which involved the deployment of multiple microservices to Kubernetes as well as the fine-tuning of these services
- Responsibilities were extended into managing CI/CD pipelines, service monitoring and alerting as well as infrastructure cost and performance monitoring
- Involvement in projects regarding CI/CD infrastructure and services migration from Jenkins to BuildKite as well as implementing various efficiencies within these pipelines
- Led the adoption of the Go programming language into the company as well as being the lead writer and maintainer of the companies first Go project
- Heavily involved in infrastructure cost review projects saving the company upwards of $1 Million in AWS costs through infrastructure optimisations and service reviews
- Consolidation of the companies logging, APM, Alerting and Monitoring into a single provider saving the company over $130,000 while simultaneously increasing developer productivity and usage of these services