Dylan Clark

dylanclark021@gmail.com | Glasgow

Experienced Platform Engineer with a foundation in Software Development. Passionate about solving problems, developer experience and enabling continuous delivery through automation and shift-left principles.

Experience

Devops Engineer | Smarter Grid Solutions | January 2022 - Present

• Migrated entire micro-service suite from monolithic EC2 system to containerised deployments on ECS
• Reduced test environment provisioning time from 70 minutes to 6 minutes using Packer and Ansible to build golden images
• Rewrote flagship product infrastructure in Terragrunt to improve state management, modularity and debugging capabilities
• Introduced the dependency management tool Renovate, increasing update frequency by 900%, improving our code security and reducing technical debt
• Implemented Auth0 authentication, including custom post-login flows and secure credential handling in CI/CD pipelines
• Established developer guardrails with Molecule for Ansible role testing, pre-commit hooks for code quality enforcement and cookiecutter templates for repository consistency

Software Developer | Smarter Grid Solutions | April 2019 - January 2022

• Developed multiple Java Springboot micro-services, as we transitioned away from the original monolith codebase
• Familiarised with the build, test and release lifecycle, as well as developing software from a cloud-native perspective
• Actively contributed to hiring and onboarding graduate apprentices, helping them grow as engineers through mentorship and hands on support

Graduate Software Developer | Ideagen | June 2018 - April 2019

• Worked on C# micro-services
• Developed AWS Lambdas for monitoring and alerting
• Introduced to the Software Development Lifecycle

Skills

• Languages: Python, Java, Golang
• Technologies: AWS, VMWare, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Packer, Ansible

Education

University of Glasgow - BSc Computer Science, 2018

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Hashicorp Terraform Associate
• Hashicorp Vault Associate

Interests

• I run my own containerised Homelab with over 15 deployed services
• I’m an avid competitive gamer and love to travel to tournaments whenever possible
• I’ve competed in many Rubik’s cube competitions across the UK and average around 11 seconds