Luke Roberts
Specialist Infrastructure Engineer at BT
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Roberts is a Specialist Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years' experience building and stabilising cloud and broadcast platforms, currently responsible for network cloud services that support critical applications like 5G and the Emergency Services Network. He combines deep hands-on expertise in OpenStack, Contrail, Kubernetes, Ceph, CI/CD and Linux (Debian/RedHat) with practical DevOps tooling—Ansible, Docker, GitLab CI and Jenkins—to both restore service quickly and implement long-term fixes. His background includes broadcast engineering for IP-based playout and stream monitoring, giving him a strong operational instinct for high-availability media and network systems. Luke has contributed backend and DevOps improvements to open-source projects, including service integrations and PaaS deployment tooling that involved CloudFormation and AWS-focused automation. Colleagues know him for troubleshooting under pressure and for turning incident learnings into repeatable infrastructure improvements. Based in Stevenage, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic scripting and automation skills across multiple languages and toolchains.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) undergraduate, Media Technology: broadcast engineering, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc) undergraduate, Media Technology: broadcast engineering, 2:1 at The University of Salford
Github Skills (20)
servicebus10
apidoc10
enterprise-integration10
integrations10
ruby10
go10
api10
aws10
system-integration10
testing9
http-request9
devops9
aws-cloudformation9
regular-expression8
github-services8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
convox/rack
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:263 commits, 75 PRs, 182 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily focused on enhancing the deployment process and codebase of the convox/rack repository, which is a PaaS built on AWS services. Their contributions involved adding regular expression checks for CloudFormation stack names in the install process and fixing related test cases. They also improved error messaging and implemented changes related to listing racks by including organization names, demonstrating work on the system's core infrastructure.
aws-servicespaasdockerecsaws
github/github-services
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Legacy GitHub Services Integration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Luke appears to have been responsible for developing and integrating a service hook for Sqwiggle within the existing GitHub services. They implemented a Ruby-based service, focusing on handling events and integrating with Sqwiggle's API. The contributions include initial setup, configuration, and testing of the service, as well as code adjustments related to authorization and data handling. The user also wrote tests to ensure the service correctly processed events.
github-services
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