Keith Maxwell
Contract Software And DevOps Engineer at Keith Maxwell Limited
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKeith Maxwell is a contract Software and DevOps engineer based in Belfast with 12 years’ experience delivering cloud-native platforms, SaaS deployments, and data-focused applications across startups and large organisations. He has led cloud transformations using AWS, Terraform and Ansible, driven containerisation and CI/CD improvements for Python/Django services, and built production chatbots with Microsoft Bot Framework—equally comfortable as an individual contributor or technical lead. Keith’s career spans short, impactful contracts and longer senior roles (including platform leadership), giving him a knack for quickly stabilising delivery pipelines and improving developer experience. He contributes to the Ansible project as a technical writer, improving documentation clarity for a widely used automation platform, which reflects his attention to practical, user-focused tooling. With an MEng from Oxford and a background in financial services and data visualisation, he combines formal engineering training with hands-on DevOps pragmatism and active local community engagement.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Engineering Economics and Management, MEng Engineering Economics and Management at University of OxfordBachelor of Laws (LLB), Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Ulster University
Github Skills (4)
ansible-galaxy10
documentation10
ansible10
python5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 17 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Keith primarily focused on improving the Ansible documentation. Their contributions include removing outdated and misleading statements, clarifying examples within the documentation, and adding or modifying titles and formatting elements in various guides. The changes also included simplifying examples by reducing the use of `connection: local` in module examples. These modifications aim to enhance the clarity, accuracy, and user-friendliness of the Ansible documentation.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
maxwell-k/general
Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
An Ansible collection for Linux system administration.
Contributions:24 PRs, 56 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 6 months
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