Chisel Malik-Wright

Chisel Malik-Wright

Software, Infrastructure & Operations

Developer evolved into devops, further evolved into SRE.
Particularly interested in problem solving code, process and architectural challenges. Preferably with access to good, modern solutions.

Availability: Two calendar months.

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Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, GB
Email
Phone
+44 7966 44 67 68
Website
https://chisel.malik-wright.uk
Instagram
chizmw

Experience

– present

Site Reliability Engineer at Zoopla

Highlights

  • Incident Management: assist with process implementation; trial tool to automate aspects of process to speed up incident response
  • On-Call & Alerts: lead trial for on-call scheduling and alerting within business area

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Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Zoopla

Highlights

  • managing AWS infrastructure with terraform; legacy account imports, and multiaccount migration
  • migration of legacy cron scripts into ECS Scheduled tasks
  • support bare metal → docker → ECS migration for services
  • automate and improve 'New Starter' and 'Engineer Leaving' processes
  • automate deployment of Jenkins nodes and gitlab runners

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Software Developer at Zoopla

Highlights

  • adopt maintenance and improvements around the Jenkins instances
  • deploy and maintain internal CPAN repositories (Pinto)
  • refine, refactor, improve and maintain Jenkins groovy library for build pipelines
  • work on internal tools for improving developer workflow wrt. development, testing and deployment

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Senior Developer at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP

Highlights

  • extend continuous deployment pipeline to enable Docker based deployments
  • introduce neo4j as storage for real-time customer association
  • own the tooling, examples and developer documentation around the evolving RESTful, JSON-based commerce services
  • design and build connectors, agents, and micro-services for the new stylish commerce architecture
  • contribute to the design of the platform's resources, APIs and payloads
  • identify and develop Linux-based tools to support the agile team's development, deployment and operational needs
  • be an evangelist for the stylish commerce platform, both inside and outside of NAP

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Senior Developer at THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP

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BLESS Committee (Chairperson) at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP

Highlights

  • lead the restructuring of the committee to make better use of interests and enthusiasm
  • drive better branding of the committee through better use of email and consistent style
  • smarter use of technologies for gathering information; e.g. Typeform
  • increase sharing and visibility through the deployment of a BLESS portal; Joomla.driven CMS

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Perl Architect at NET-A-PORTER.COM

Highlights

  • migrate warehouse application from apache1/mod_perl1 to Plack/PSGI.
  • update perl build process to use 5.16.x and 5.18.x.
  • update perl build process to install on Centos-6/RHEL6 (previously Centos 5/RHEL5).
  • update product management application to run on Centos-6/RHEL6 (previously Centos 5/RHEL5).
  • implement network resiliency in bespoke message/job broker system.

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Senior Perl Developer at NET-A-PORTER.COM

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Site Fire Officer at NET-A-PORTER.COM

Highlights

  • lead the team of Fire Marshals
  • provide a single point of contact for questions and issues relating to fire safety issues at the company's head office.
  • also responsible for:
    • planning evacuation procedure
    • recruiting fire marshals
    • organising and running bi-annual evacuation drills

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    Perl Developer at NET-A-PORTER.COM

    Highlights

    • improve in-house product/stock management system.
    • introduce new technologies and ideas: Apache::Session, DBIx:Class, Catalyst.
    • implement photography studio workflow functionality.
    • implement customer promotion management system.
    • design and create new in-house product management system and architecture with existing systems to facilitate the launch of TheOutnet.com.

    – present

    Contributor at CPAN

    Highlights

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    Lead Software Developer at EHS Brann

    Highlights

    • project design, implementation and maintenance for data-capture (microsites), data-processing and email/sms broadcasts.
    • maintain existing projects.
    • improve documentation and general working practices.

    –

    Software Developer at Moneyextra/Chase De Vere

    Highlights

    • maintain and improve bulletin board for financial website.
    • maintain various existing projects/processes.
    • interview prospective new employees.

    –

    Programmer at Geodetic

    Education

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    B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science & Mathematics from Manchester University with GPA of

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    Secondary School + A-Levels in from Arnold Hill with GPA of

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    Secondary School in from Lampton with GPA of

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    Primary School in from Lionel Road Primary School with GPA of

    References

    At the risk of sounding obsequious... I can't say enough good things about Chisel. He's not afraid to challenge people who want to take shortcuts; his commitment to doing things the right way is unmatched. Chisel is conscientious, precise, efficient, witty & thorough. He's really helpful and brilliant at communicating with everyone from the tech savvy to the computer illiterate. Legend.

    — LiLi Kathleen Bright - Spotify

    Great quality Perl work, good team player, good communication skills, and generally a nice person to work with.

    — Alex Sayle - Beacon Platform Inc

    Chisel has excellent attention to detail and has ensured that his coded solutions are future-proof and robust. However, he is more than an average developer, he has frequently demonstrated his knack for ensuring that his solutions are usable and tailored to meet user needs.

    — Shirley Wong - Valtech DE

    Second time I've worked with Chisel at a company. His forward thinking to eliminate potential flaws in solutions he has to deliver is invaluable. He is clearly a passionate technical professional and takes great pride in the work and nothing less than 'best of my ability' is acceptable. I thoroughly enjoy working with Chisel as we're both happy to discuss solutions without involving egos and enabling us to provide stronger solutions to problems. Highly recommended. Jason

    — Jason Tang - Net-A-Porter.com

    Languages

    English
    Fluency: Native speaker
    French
    Fluency: Elementary proficiency
    German
    Fluency: Elementary proficiency
    Italian
    Fluency: Elementary proficiency

    Skills

    SaaS
    Level: Professional
    Keywords:
    • OpsGenie
    • blameless.com
    • Gitlab (self-hosted)
    Languages
    Level: Professional
    Keywords:
    • Perl
    • Shell (bash/zsh)
    • C
    • Groovy
    • JavaScript
    • golang
    Databases & Storage
    Level: Professional
    Keywords:
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • neo4j
    • Solr
    Tooling
    Level: Professional
    Keywords:
    • git
    • docker
    • puppet
    • terrafrom
    • jenkins
    • gitlab
    • subversion
    Web Servers
    Level: Intermediate
    Keywords:
    • Apache 1.x
    • Apache 2.x
    • nginx
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Level: Intermediate
    Keywords:
    • EC2
    • ECS
    • IAM
    • RDS
    • S3
    • SSM
    Websites
    Level: Intermediate
    Keywords:
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • jekyll
    Health & Safety
    Level: Intermediate
    Keywords:
    • Fire Safety
    • DSE Assessments
    • Risk Assessments

    Interests

    Tabletop Gaming
    Keywords:
    • Board Games
    • Card Games
    • Social Deduction
    • Design