Summary
Connor Hampstead is a platform engineer with eight years of experience and a six-year focus on DevSecOps, currently based in Gothenburg and working across high-impact platform roles at Zenseact and ZOOL. He has a strong track record delivering Azure-native OLAP and Databricks platforms, implementing Terraform-managed infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure hub/spoke onboarding patterns that drove measurable cost and performance improvements. Connor led platform squads and defined company-wide SDLC and DevEx practices, migrating legacy CI systems and balancing developer autonomy with strict security and auditing requirements. Known for pragmatic architecture decisions—such as introducing a logical consumption layer over Databricks to speed and reduce cost of customer-facing APIs—he pairs hands-on implementation with direct collaboration with security and networking stakeholders. He brings practical experience in high availability, disaster recovery, and reusable platform components that accelerate safe, scalable data consumption.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science with a Year in Industry, Bachelor's degree Computer Science with a Year in Industry at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd