From 190b612cb7cdb3c748bc2aa6c8d25512767ee95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jakemulley Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:11:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Tidy up About page --- src/pages/about.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pages/about.md b/src/pages/about.md index f0a085e..9dbec88 100644 --- a/src/pages/about.md +++ b/src/pages/about.md @@ -3,33 +3,33 @@ title: About me layout: "../layouts/Page.astro" --- -👋 Hello! I'm Jake Mulley. I'm a hands-on technical leader, software engineer, and technical architect, all rolled into one. +👋 Hello! I'm Jake Mulley. I'm a hands-on technical lead, software engineer, and technical architect. -I have 11 years experience working within the public and private sectors, as well as with agencies, startups and charities. +I have over 11 years experience working within the public and private sectors, as well as with agencies, startups and charities. I'm currently a **Principal Technical Architect** at the UK government's [Ministry of Justice](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice). Day to day, I regularly work on: -- Modernising legacy products, services, and infrastructure -- Defining and building technical architecture, specialising in serverless -- Building accessible services with progressive enhancement -- Designing data-driven and domain-driven services -- Collaborating across stakeholders to get buy-in and define technical strategies +- modernising legacy products, services, and infrastructure +- defining and building technical architecture, specialising in cloud-native technology and serverless +- building accessible, progessively-enhanced services +- designing data-driven and domain-driven services +- collaborating across stakeholders at all levels to gain buy-in and define technical strategies To do this, I tend to utilise whatever is best for the job at hand, though I often use: -| Purpose | Thing | -| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| Cloud infrastructure | Providers: Configuration-as-code: | -| Backend development | Node, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Go | -| Frontend development | Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript and flavours: | -| General scripting | Node, JavaScript, `sh` and `zsh`, Go | -| CI/CD pipelines | GitHub Actions, Circle, Jenkins, GoCD | -| Issue tracking | Jira, GitHub Projects | -| Version control | Git (inc. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket) | +| Purpose | Thing | +| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| Cloud infrastructure | Providers: Configuration-as-code: | +| Backend development | Node, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Go | +| Frontend development | Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript and flavours: | +| General scripting | Node, JavaScript, `sh` and `zsh`, Go | +| CI/CD pipelines | GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Concourse, Jenkins, GoCD | +| Issue tracking | Jira, GitHub Projects | +| Version control | Git (inc. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket) | -Some of my work is open source on [GitHub](https://github.com/jakemulley). You can also find me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/carboia), [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/jakemulley), or you can [email me](mailto:me@jakemulley.com). +Some of my work is open source on [GitHub](https://github.com/jakemulley). --- @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ I was Lead Technical Architect within the Platforms and Architecture team. I worked within the Platforms and Architecture team, leading five teams to transform how the Ministry of Justice hosts services, with a clear drive towards public cloud. -The teams I lead are: +The teams I led were: - [Cloud Platform](https://user-guide.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/#cloud-platform-user-guide), who run a cloud-native hosting platform for modern services - [Modernisation Platform](https://user-guide.modernisation-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/#modernisation-platform), who run a cloud-first hosting platform for older, legacy services @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The teams I lead are: Prior to becoming Head of Hosting & Digital Operations, I was Technical Architect for the [Modernisation Platform](https://user-guide.modernisation-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/#modernisation-platform). -The Modernisation Platform vision is: +The Modernisation Platform vision was: > a single platform which allows the Ministry of Justice to modernise services, and run them in a unified, scalable way @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ I led a multi-disciplinary team and built a platform that: - enforced CI/CD for infrastructure configuration and deployment - started to automate networking configuration to centralise networking management for legacy services -I also started to [centralise and maintain best practises within the Ministry of Justice's AWS estate](https://github.com/ministryofjustice/aws-root-account), including introducing: +I also began [centralising and maintaining best practises within the Ministry of Justice's AWS estate](https://github.com/ministryofjustice/aws-root-account), including introducing: - AWS SSO for authentication into AWS accounts - centralised security services and monitoring