Kevin Tomsett

Lead platform engineer driving AWS infrastructure modernisation, IaC maturity and developer experience improvements using Pulumi, Terraform and Jenkins. Led zero-downtime MongoDB Atlas upgrades and extended hub-and-spoke networking to enable private service access.

Led enterprise platforms teams for Communications and Data Delivery, defining cloud migration and architecture strategy and delivering integrations (Adobe AEP, Salesforce MC) to support scale and compliance. Drove CI/CD, observability and team maturity across hybrid Azure environments.

Led SURGE shared services technical strategy and delivery for 20+ engineers, driving cloud adoption, streaming/queuing architectures and platform resilience. Delivered PoCs and frameworks for alerting, debt reduction and design consistency.

Led a rewrite of the core payments platform to an ISO-compliant, gRPC-based microservices architecture with Kafka streaming, improving resilience and throughput. Mentored engineers and productionised POCs to reduce technical debt.

Scaled the Opticollect platform from concept to production, implementing Azure-based CI/CD, security controls and support processes to achieve stable, secure operations. Delivered Azure-hosted DebiCheck integration and multiple POCs to drive product-market fit.

Co-founded and delivered a mobile-first MVP on Azure (.NET Core, Azure SQL, CI/CD), negotiated a supplier agreement with an international cruise line and led early commercial and technical operations.

Led technical delivery for a global upgrade replacing a legacy Meeting Manager used by 65,000+ users, overseeing deployment, performance testing and vendor liaison. Configured Windows Server environments and supported UAT and rollout activities.

Developed WCF services for KYC data capture and SENSE check integration, replacing a legacy SSIS process to reduce database load and automate auditable KYC workflows. Delivered a second-version enhancement adopted group-wide.

Served as technical SME for NRLS systems, leading application development, performance optimisations and roadmap planning across Oracle and SQL Server platforms. Developed a prototype NLP/NER engine to modernise legacy analytics.

Executed data cleansing and migration for Network Rail, reverse-engineering an undocumented Oracle APEX system and building ETL scripts to repair and migrate legacy data. Created Tableau dashboards to visualise forecasts and anomalies.

Managed full-stack development and service delivery for financial reporting and data consolidation platforms, acted as product owner during SAP ERP migration and restructured ETL and BI processes to improve reporting reliability.

Led business analysis and data migration for insurance system upgrades, delivering a new data warehouse and reporting structure and managing full migration lifecycle to Global XB.

Delivered backend development and data architecture for new insurance product web applications, implementing Oracle database structures and PL/SQL packages and integrating .NET middle-tier interfaces.

Solely managed the Agency's data warehouse and ETL infrastructure, reducing daily ETL runtimes by over 80% and transitioning batch processes toward real-time warehousing.

Delivered Oracle Forms and PL/SQL development and Java integrations to modernise telecom provisioning and inventory systems, implementing ETL pipelines for large-scale migrations.

Delivered Oracle Forms and schema builds for Sovereign Health, reducing critical job runtimes from 5 hours to 1 and completing a payments system migration one month early.

Developed VB6 applications and Crystal Reports to automate plant administration and upgraded legacy systems to improve operational efficiency for large-scale chemical cellulose production.

Completed a Diploma in Computer Science at the Computer Training Institute (CTI) in 2003.