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: Three calendar months.
- Location
- Farnborough, Hampshire, GB
- chisel@redmeeple.uk
- Phone
- +44 7966 44 67 68
- Website
- https://chisel.malik-wright.uk
- chizmeeple
Experience
– present
Senior Security Engineer at Houseful
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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.
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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.
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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.
Great quality Perl work, good team player, good communication skills, and generally a nice person to work with.
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.
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
Languages
- English
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Fluency: Native speaker
- French
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Fluency: Elementary proficiency
- German
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Fluency: Elementary proficiency
- Italian
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Fluency: Elementary proficiency
Skills
- Security
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- SaaS
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- Languages
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- Databases & Storage
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- Tooling
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- Web Servers
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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- Websites
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- Health & Safety
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Interests
- Tabletop Gaming
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