Hi, my name is

Joe Ashworth.

I'm an SRE by day, and a Tinkerer by night.

I'm a passionate Senior SRE with a decade of experience. In my free time, I'm building a smart home, scuba diving, snowboarding and paramotoring.

I'm always open to collaboration or a chat. Feel free to reach out to me!

what i do

Site Reliability Engineering

  • Focus on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of systems and services.
  • Develop and maintain automation tools and systems to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
  • Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues before they impact users.

Tinkering

  • I'm a nerd at heart and love to mix tech with the real world.
  • I run my own home server and use it to automate daily tasks around my home with the help of Home Assistant.
  • I'm always looking for new ways to automate things and make my life easier.

where i've worked

Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Bolt

October 2021 - present

  • Act as the primary point of contact for overseeing and maintaining a vast ecosystem of over 20,000 microservices, ensuring their availability, performance, and scalability at all times.
  • Implemented Cost Saving measures and monitoring, resulting in a yearly saving of $1.5M
  • Design, implement, and manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications within the microservices architecture.
  • Migrated every Microservice from debian packages installed directly on EC2 to a multi-AZ container orchestration platform
  • Plan, design, and execute chaos testing exercises to simulate real-world failure scenarios and evaluate the resiliency and reliability of the microservices ecosystem and container orchestration platform.
  • Lead incident response efforts, conduct thorough post-mortem analyses, and implement preventive measures to minimize the occurrence and impact of incidents in the future.

So, what now?

Get in touch!

I’m always open to connecting with people in the industry, whether it’s to discuss a potential project or just to say hi!

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