John Arundel

University of East Anglia

Sun Microsystems

CompTIA

Linux Professional Institute

Bitfield Institute of Technology

Author of lovingly-crafted books about Go. Programming is fun, and you should have fun.

Lostwithiel, England, United Kingdom

I help people to build fun, rewarding tech careers, and build great software with Go!

BITFIELD CONSULTING LIMITED

Owner

I love programming in Go, and I love teaching and mentoring, so it's great to be able to help people learn Go. It's not a difficult language, but it can be hard to know how to get started, how to do test-driven development in Go, how to organise projects, and so on. I can help with all of that!

Go mentor / author

I've been working closely with the team at ThirtyThree to help build a modern, distributed cloud infrastructure with automated deployments and monitoring, making them one of the most technically advanced UK web agencies.

ThirtyThree

Consultant

At Herdl I've helped build and maintain an advanced, high-performance multi-cloud web server infrastructure, defined in code and managed by automation. This helps the development team to build, deploy, and scale award-winning client websites in record time.

Herdl.com

The nice people at <a href="http://Uptime.com">Uptime.com</a> asked me to help provide insights on monitoring, SRE, observability, uptime, downtime, and everything in between. Since I spend most of my time thinking or writing about these things, I'm delighted to be of service! I'm also working with their excellent marketing team to help produce monthly reports on uptime, outages, and their consequences for major brands.

Uptime.com

I'm helping the awesome engineers at Zycus with monitoring, observability, and best practices for their microservices architecture, and transitioning it from a VM platform to Kubernetes. Very fun work!

ZYCUS INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED

Infrastructure consultant

VibraVid is a decentralized music and video platform that rewards both users and creators in an ecosystem that uses BeatzCoin as its native currency. I'm working with the VibraVid operations team to help build a cloud native infrastructure based on Kubernetes.

VibraVid

Kubernetes consultant

I'm working with the highly capable tech team at ObjectiveManager to roll out a modern, scalable Puppet infrastructure for their server fleet, and to implement observability, metrics, and distributed tracing throughout the stack.

ObjectiveManager

Checkly is a sophisticated API and web application monitoring tool. I'm working with the nice folks there to develop and maintain the Checkly Golang SDK and Terraform provider, and writing occasional technical articles for the Checkly blog!

Checkly

I'm working with the amazing engineers at JustPark to help build a modern, scalable, reliable, cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, supported by automation and observability. It sounds cool, and it is cool!

JustPark

I'm working with the team at Raspberry Pi to roll out a major infrastructure upgrade, transitioning to Kubernetes-based microservices using Amazon EKS, and implementing enterprise-grade security and access controls.

Raspberry Pi Foundation

As part of the infrastructure and operations team at Paidy, I'm helping deliver a major upgrade to their cardless real-time payments platform, building systems to automatically deploy and scale services in Amazon Fargate and Kubernetes.

Paidy

Working with Dynatrace's in-house deployment and automation team, I'm helping to scale and upgrade their global Puppet infrastructure.

Dynatrace

I'm helping Lumi run their cloud-based web and data science operations, and building smart fault-tolerant automated data processing systems.

Lumi.do

I helped Fuel3D to optimize their development, QA, and release workflows with Git, and to build a state-of-the-art continuous integration and delivery system based on automated cloud infrastructure.

Fuel3D

I consulted with Digital Works Group on web operations, helping them migrate to a new hosting infrastructure and a modern, scalable application platform.

Digital Works Group (UK)

I'm helping ISARR build a highly advanced, automated cloud infrastructure based on Puppet to support their risk, resilience, and security management platform.

ISARR

Wide Open West

I worked with the highly-respected digital humanities engineer Bridget Almas, migrating project infrastructure to Amazon AWS, bringing all servers under configuration management control with Puppet, and rolling out fully-automated monitoring using Icinga.

Tufts University

Social Superstore

At Selectamark I worked closely with the DevOps team to build and roll out a new automated webserver infrastructure based on Puppet, together with integrated monitoring and alerting systems to enable 24/7 high availability operations.

Selectamark Security Systems plc

OnSite

I helped ISC build a new, automated source-control and development workflow system based on GitLab. This also involved some interesting (and challenging!) work on cross-platform Puppet management of Windows and Linux servers, and automated Puppet provisioning of Amazon EC2 instances.

Intentional Software Corporation

Ifbyphone

I worked with VirtualTeamMate, a premier virtual assistant service, to set up and run their web operations and lead generation infrastructure.

VirtualTeamMate

Mauva

Likely Ltd

Codecentric

At CareZone, I've helped to develop an innovative cloud healthcare platform, based on Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go, and Terraform. With an emphasis on automation, code quality, testing, and observability, I've also helped scale the engineering operation based on DevOps principles.

CareZone.com

EDM Studio Inc

Building a fast, secure, automated deployment and provisioning system based on Puppet, which is dramatically reducing Eazytiger's sysadmin overhead, and making it possible for them to bring new customer servers online within minutes.

Eazytiger Ltd.

The Gallery Partnership Ltd.

I'm working with Kaluma's engineers to build industry-leading automated infrastructure and deployment for the Mobilize e-logistics platform.

Kaluma

With Associates

I'm working with AppDynamics, a leading application performance management provider, to help scale their systems to support a rapidly growing client base.

AppDynamics

Appspark

I'm helping Prytania realize an ambitious migration programme to a fully-virtualized infrastructure including automated configuration management, and a highly resilient business continuity environment.

Prytania Investment Advisors

I'm helping Admoda grow its global mobile advertising network and maximise ROI by building a highly-automated, self-organising cloud infrastructure based on Puppet.

Admoda

Mark Boulton Design

I'm working with Splay using advanced virtualization and configuration management techniques to deliver on-demand scalability for their premiere e-commerce stores.

Splay, Inc.

I helped Ruby Pond implement a sophisticated online monitoring system for their web sites and servers.

Ruby Pond

I worked with business resilience experts CitySafe to help build their next generation scalable infrastructure, including automated configuration management, high-performance web servers and continuous integration testing.

CitySafe

I worked with People's Music Store to help build a modern, automated server infrastructure for the storage and delivery of massive quantities of digital data.

People's Music Store

As part of the Wordtracker Sysops group I specialised in systems engineering: developing highly automated and reliable networks, data processing, server monitoring, deployment, and backups. I led the introduction of automated configuration management across Wordtracker's large server network, using Puppet and Ruby.