Panos Koumantos

Lead the design, automation, security and operation of internal cloud and Kubernetes platforms, with AWS primary and Azure secondary. Directly manage and technically lead eight engineers, partnering with two solution architects.

Delivered cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, security remediation, observability, data-processing services and blockchain workloads in a high-availability cryptocurrency environment.

Engineered Kubernetes provisioning, enterprise CI/CD, platform security and observability for a large regulated financial-services organisation.

Supported high-traffic AWS retail infrastructure and web-delivery platforms, combining automation, CI/CD, CDN/WAF, performance engineering, security remediation and Linux operations.

Built DeployBot/Envoyer pipelines and Docker Hub image builds; provisioned AWS/Rackspace VMs with Terraform and Packer; operated Vault/Consul; automated Linux with Bash, Python and Go; monitored via New Relic, Bugsnag and UptimeRobot.

Developed Symfony/eZ Publish applications with TDD/BDD; built Jenkins pipelines and AWS infrastructure using Terraform/Packer; operated Vault/Consul and Debian automation; managed Vagrant/Chef environments with PHPUnit and Behat testing.

Developed CRM, Drupal, WordPress and REST APIs; integrated Google Wallet, WorldPay, SagePay and PayPal; administered Linux and Vagrant/VirtualBox environments while improving internal performance and security.

Developed Magento modules using SOLID principles and TDD/BDD with PHPUnit and Behat; delivered AJAX, jQuery and Prototype front-end functionality alongside back-end PHP development.

Supported web and digital-campaign delivery for Thomas Cook, RED Driving School, Tesco Pets and a Domino's Pizza Facebook application.

Completed AWS AI Practitioner learning path and CKA preparation course.

Completed AWS Cloud Quest: Solutions Architect.

Completed CloudBees Core, Jenkins Administrator and Jenkins Pipelines.

Completed DevOps Engineering on AWS.

MSc in Information Security with a dissertation on SQL Injection Defence Application.

BSc (Hons) in Information Systems, including a group business systems design and development project.