Bruce Becker

Back Home. ex physicist. Infrastructure guy. Skeptic. African. Islander. dad. Empathy at work. Quality Matters.

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About

Engineering Manager ; Infrastructure Engineer ; Quality Assurance ; Research Infrastructures ; Weirdness Aficionado My toolbox: Jenkins, Gitlab, Hashicorp (Vault, Terraform, Packer, Consul, Nomad), Ansible, GitHub API, Buildpacks, Helm, Spinnaker, Cloudflare Will deploy applications anywhere. IT Service Management FitSM Certified (Expert). Prefer Go, Python, Ruby (and yes, bash) to implement process automation. Prefer solving problems over fixing issues. All my releases are semantic.

Experience

  • Identity and Access Management & Community Support at EGI Foundation
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Kiratech (1 yr 11 mos)
    • Cloud Native Engineering Manager
      Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr

    • Senior Cloud Native Engineer
      May 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr

  • DevOps Technical Lead at Italian offensive security firm
    Oct 2021 - May 2022 · 8 mos

  • DevOps Engineer at UEFA
    Apr 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Senior Operations Officer at EGI Foundation
    Mar 2018 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    This role was an Operations Officer at EGI, the foundation responsible for co-ordinating Europe's largest distributed research compute cloud. I was responsible for Capacity Management. As part of my time at EGI, I helped implement continuous integration and delivery of infrastructure components. I introduced end-to-end functional testing, compliance testing, and BDD practices for infrastructure components. Created the EGI community forum - https://community.egi.eu Involved in the EOSC collaboration to form the European Open Science Cloud Part of my work involved liaising with peer infrastructure in Africa and the US to foster interoperability.