Senior Software Engineer specialising in Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure automation.

I build deterministic, reproducible, Everything-as-Code platforms that remove operational burden and make teams faster, safer, and more scalable.

I am especially motivated by:

• Automation-first engineering
• Declarative platforms
• Reliability, correctness, and long-term maintainability
• Open source
• Helping teams level up through structure, clarity, and coaching

All my public work is fully libre and open source.

evoteum/kubernetes-lab

Kubernetes | Ansible | ArgoCD | HAProxy | Cilium

A fully automated multi-architecture bare-metal Kubernetes platform.

Highlights:

• HA control plane bootstrap with automated join and upgrades.
• GitOps for full cluster lifecycle.
• Deterministic configuration, zero manual operations.

evoteum/drydock

Go | Tinkerbell | Kubernetes-native provisioning

A Kubernetes-native bare-metal provisioning pipeline that converts unprovisioned servers into HA clusters using PXE and immutable images.

evoteum/estate-repos

Terraform | GitHub Actions

Declarative automation for managing entire GitHub organisations from a single YAML file.

• Creates repos, secrets, workflows, permissions, and registries.
• Enforces consistency and eliminates drift across an organisation.

evoteum/planzoco

Go | Terraform | AWS ECS | GitHub Actions | Everything-as-Code

A collaborative event-planning platform built with a clean, deterministic Go backend and deployed through a fully automated IaC pipeline.

Highlights:

• Backend service for multi-dimensional voting workflows.
• Zero-manual ECS deployment pattern using Terraform modules.
• Automated CI/CD, secure defaults, and reproducible environments.
• Part of a wider Evoteum estate using organisation-wide IaC and GitOps.

jamesgeddes/itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas

Python | Terraform

An automated data-pipeline measuring the "Christmasyness" of the internet over time. Runs unattended for years thanks to deterministic IaC and fully scripted orchestration.

EppingForestPipeBand/EppingForestPipeBand.github.io

Jekyll | GitHub Pages | Terraform

A photography and media gallery for The Epping Forest Pipe Band. Simple, reliable, and maintained via GitHub Pages for low operational overhead.

Community engagement platform

GeekZoneHQ/web

A web system for managing community events, membership, and engagement for the Geek.Zone charity.

• Design high-availability Kubernetes and AWS architectures
• Build end-to-end IaC pipelines using Terraform, OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, and GitLab
• Create repeatable deployment platforms (golden paths) for engineering teams
• Implement automation-first infrastructure engineering
• Champion upstream-aligned, low-friction, deterministic systems
• Coach and mentor engineers in DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud architecture

If you would like to collaborate, hire me, or chat about infrastructure automation, feel free to shout.