Senior CI/CD and platform engineer focused on SRE, Kubernetes, GitOps, and high-availability systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
I am currently a Senior Developer — CI/CD at House of Doge, with a platform engineering and SRE focus. Before that, I spent 20 years progressing from Junior Developer to Principal Developer at One New Zealand, building and operating business-critical telecom, cloud, and payment systems.
- Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and developer self-service
- CI/CD systems that make delivery repeatable, reviewable, and safe
- Observability, incident response, production reliability, and cloud networking
- Secure developer tooling, MCP services, and agentic engineering workflows
- TensorRelay, a distributed AI inference platform built through Solus Designs
- markpaine-site — a fork-friendly Next.js CV site with a Playwright-generated PDF, automated accessibility checks, Docker, and optional GitOps deployment


