Senior SRE & Platform Engineer with 20+ years building cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
I specialise in Azure, Kubernetes, GitOps, and platform reliability — with a deep background in fintech (Backbase, HSBC, BMO, RBC, Scotiabank).
When I’m not shipping platforms, I’m a night-rated private pilot ✈️
At Backbase, we operate a Banking-as-a-Service platform that serves 150+ banks and credit unions. That means running Kubernetes clusters for each customer — across Azure AKS and AWS EKS — and deploying to all of them reliably, repeatedly, and safely. This post covers how we do it with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way. The Core Idea GitOps is simple in principle: Git is the single source of truth. Every change to infrastructure or application config goes through a pull request. The cluster reconciles itself to match what’s in Git. ...