Felix Hawkins
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorFelix Hawkins is an experienced engineer based in London with 12 years building and scaling cloud-native systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience functions across startups and enterprise teams. He founded Whimsical Doodles to consult on DevOps, CICD and systems design while holding senior platform and reliability roles at Depop where he drove search and ML pipeline work, service mesh rollouts, and cost-optimising platform improvements. Felix’s background includes large-scale cloud architecture and security hardening at Tractable, extensive Terraform and automation work, and hands-on migration and tooling projects that cut cloud costs and operational toil. He combines pragmatic engineering with systems thinking—often delivering bespoke Go CLI tools and configuration-as-code solutions to enable continuous delivery for varied microservice and monolithic workloads. Comfortable both leading teams and getting into the weeds, he has a track record of turning complex deployment and migration challenges into repeatable, auditable processes. Outside the obvious, Felix’s career shows a knack for bridging research and production needs—wrapping academic libraries for modern containerised deployments in high-concurrency, high-availability environments.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (54)
travis9
package9
recurly9
apk9
release-automation9
goreleaser8
cli8
rpm8
binaries8
golang7
deb7
metadata7
homebrew7
snapcraft7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fifitrixabelle/ship
Apr 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
Whimsical-Doodles/twitter_saver
Nov 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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