PhiRoICT DevOps Consulting

Pipe-lining from idea to customer fulfilment. Guiding and building the whole process.

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What do I bring to the table?

PhiRo ICT Limited

DEVELOPMENT

Build applications, integrate these in existing application meshes, in a pletora of programming languages.

DEVOPS

Facilitating culture change to get to market much faster. Implement, Deploy, Correct, Deploy in short cycles.

DEPLOYMENT

Deploy applications by scripting, CI pipelines in conjunction with tools like Ansible, Chef, Salt, Terraform, and many many more.

PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Integration of cloud and on-prem systems into secure and functional units.

My Story

ICT professional since the twentieth century

Deployment by using CI (Continues Integration) tools for control, reproducibility, auditing, and implicit documentation

Platform engineering and Development with modern languages (And some classics) like

Python
Nodejs
TypeScript
Terraform / CDKTF
Ansible
Golang
Rust
Java
C

ICT Experience

With many years experience in Software engineering, I have hands on experience in the following roles:

DevOps motivator
Ops liaison
Developer
Deployment/CI designer and implementer
Platform engineering, design and implementation
Induction and integrative Mentoring
Technical Mentoring
Humanisation of the ICT workspace

I have been mainly active in international/multi locality teams so I am used to communicating amongst several cultures, time zones and spoken/programming languages. I am flexible in where the works needs to be done. Working remotely is preferable.

Accomplishments

By project

Southern Cross
Being a member of the team that won the 2023 Redhat Innovation award
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We worked implementing and stabilizing a mature Openshift stack that increased the velocity for the value stream teams, increasing development to production time in orders of magnitude.
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My part was mainly implementing cluster stabilizing corrections and creating the framework of documentation and policy around the maintenance, monitoring, and securing the clusters. All this while building a Platform Engineering practice

MTF Finance
Building a team from the resistance against the DevOps culture we were moving into. Then the technical implementation of a IaC stack with deployment pipelines.
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My role was to mentor and co-learn the new cloud stack and build the team in an evolving way building a DevOps practice.

LIC Hamilton
Migrating IaC from on prem stack with no outages
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My role was training the team to use pipelines to use the IaC code building a DevOps practice.

Experiences

Projects and customers

HYPR NZ

Platform Engineering and DevOps consultancy for several customers of Hypr: Southern Cross, Cuscal, LIC, Redhat (ADB, BNZ, AscentMoney), BNZ, MTF Finance

Tool stack:

OpenShift 4
Kubernetes
Azure Devops
Powershell
Python
Bash
AAP (Ansible Automation Platform)
AWS / boto3
Azure
Terraform
CDKTF
Ansible
Vagrant
NodeJS/TypeScript
Rust
Golang

Kiwirail

Lead Integration specialist

Tool stack:

Terraform
Terragrunt
Mule 3
Mule 4
Apache Camel
Rust
Azure (Logic Apps, Infrastructure)
Jenkins

Catospace

Culture and philosophy shifts for ICT

Tool stack:

Psychology
cultural shifts
AWS
Terraform
Concourse CI
Ansible
Vagrant
NodeJS

Cloudcoder.io

DevOps enginering for night shift work for the EU area

Tool stack:

AWS
Terraform
Concourse CI
Ansible
Vagrant
NodeJS

Kiwirail

Several projects concerning integration of systems and exposing a public API.

Tool stack:

Mule 3
Java
Apache Maven
Docker
Docker-swarm
Ansible
Jenkins CI

Lotto NZ

Deployment automation, building service mesh on top of VM stack

Tool stack:

Salt
Jenkins CI
Triton cli
Ansible
Python

SkyTV

Build and deploy portal server for content manager for the Neon streaming platform.

Tool stack: LifeRay, Ansible, Java, Apache maven.

Foster Moore

Deployment enterprise systems.

Tool stack: Java EE, IBM Websphere, Python

Relatieplanet

[Netherlands] Building a new platform for the largest Dutch dating site while maintaining the old stack.

Tool stack: Java, CI Cruisecontrol, VB6, C

AT&T

[US/Netherlands] Development environment build and maintenance. Production deployment components for internal administration.

Tool stack: Oracle databases, VMware, Bash, Java

Greetz

[Netherlands] Building administration and deployment systems for an greeting card organisation.

Tool stack: Java, Apache Struts, Bash

Mikohn / Holland Casino

[US/Netherlands] Building administation system slotmachines for providers in Las Vegas and the Netherlands

Tool stack: Bash deployment scripts, C++, VB6, VC++.

Open source contributions

Projects and modules

Terraform module

AWS Kafka cluster module

Repository: Kafka module

Tool stack: AWS, Terraform, Kafka

Terraform module

AWS PHP site on multi AZ infrastructure

Repository: PHP web module

Tool stack: AWS, Terraform, PHP, PHP-fpm

Certificates

Certificate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Date: 2019-12-10

Validation code: P4KYSSG1FJEE1G99

Certificate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Date: 2020-04-23

Validation code: NZJLH00KME441BK8

On site training and certificate

Red hat accredited professional

Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Cloud Automation

Date: 2018-01-14

On site training and certificate

Red hat accredited professional

Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Administration

Date: 2018-01-28

On site training and certificate

Red hat accredited professional

Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Development

Date: 2018-01-14

Meet The company

This company is run by me personally though for larger projects other professionals can be added from a freelance pool.

Philip Rodrigues

Owner and DevOps consultant

I may need to use the services from other professionals in some projects, interested? Let me know if I can add you to the pool. Acquisition is not appreciated and will be ignored.

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