Kris F
Platform Engineer | AWS · Kubernetes · GitOps
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About
Platform and site reliability engineer with 12+ years in tech, focused on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps. Recently at IOHK/Midnight managing 7 EKS clusters across 6 AWS accounts, building GitOps pipelines, security policy tooling, and self-serve platform capabilities for distributed engineering teams.
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer — IOHK/Midnight (2024–2026): EKS cluster management, ArgoCD GitOps, Kyverno policy enforcement, IAM hardening, supply chain security (cosign, SLSA), incident response.
AWS Platform Engineer — Vialma (2020–2024): Built and maintained cloud infrastructure for a music streaming SaaS on AWS. Terraform/Terragrunt IaC, CI/CD pipelines, PostgreSQL HA.
Full-Stack Engineer — TPICAP (2017–2020): Trading platform software, financial systems, Node.js/C#.
Earlier: Merchant Warehouse/Cayan (payments), Kainos Software (gov IT), Nissan Belfast.
Education
BSc (Hons) Computing and IT
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
