Profile
David Bibby
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About Me:
I live with my wife, two children and two hens 🐔 in South Cheshire. I love music, cycling and playing with LEGO with my kids.
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My Work:
As a ‘Senior DevOps Engineer’ I write code that automatically builds servers (computers without a keyboard or mouse!) and networks (so servers can communicate with each other) in the cloud.
These servers then run other peoples programmes allowing hundreds of people to use them often via a Web browser – so just like YouTube or Office 365, or even this website!
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Most of the code I write is called “Infrastructure as Code” or “configuration management” code. I use programming languages like Terraform and Ansible, and occasionally Python.
I most work in public cloud infrastructure including AWS and Azure. The code I write automatically builds entire systems in the cloud, and ensures those systems are secure and kept up to date.
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My Typical Day:
I usually wake up at 7am. I have breakfast and help my kids get ready for school. I usually start work at 08:30 with my coffee and catching up on emails and messages.
I have a morning call with the rest of my team at 10:30 where we discuss what we’re working on and any challenges we have.
After lunch tends to be my focus time when I do most of my coding work, then I finish around 16:30, sometimes earlier if I’m taking one of my boys out to their hobbies.
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Education:
Marple Hall High School – GCSEs in English, Maths, Triple science, German, Design Technology (Electronics), Music
Stockport College – GNVQ in Media Production, followed by an HND in TV Production
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Work History:
- Shop Assistant : Jessops – Saturday Job selling cameras and photography related accessories
- Sound Engineer: VME – setting up sound systems and operating the mixing desk for bands, festival and theatre shows
- Post-production Technician: Verge Media – producing animated graphics and interactive sports training DVDs for Sport England
- Broadcast Technology Assistant: BBC – Trainee apprenticeship learning how to be a broadcast engineer
- Broadcast Engineer: BBC Manchester – supporting the technology systems used in all programmes made in Manchester, both TV and Radio
- Systems Specialist (Post-Production): BBC Salford – design and maintenance of TV post-production systems for Sport and Children’s programmes.
- Systems Specialist (Storage and Archive): BBC Salford – installation and maintenance of large data storage platforms holding Petabytes of video media files for BBC Sport
- Systems Engineer: BBC Salford – moved from an operations team to a project delivery team where I built virtualisation systems for broadcast applications. These were “private clouds”
- Cloud Automation Engineer: DXC Technology – built (coded) automation systems that are the inner workings of private cloud systems for important UK clients
- Lead Cloud/DevOps Engineer: BAE Digital Intelligence – moved to cloud engineering using public cloud (AWS, Azure) working in a software delivery team
- Senior DevOps Engineer: Eficode – we build the systems that enable software developers to do their jobs.
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Current Job:
Senior DevOps Engineer
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Employer:
Eficode UK
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Builder of Clouds
What did you want to be after you left school?
A sound engineer
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Not really - I got a lunch detention once for missing my bus!
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
An airline Pilot
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Muse, but I love all kinds of music, rock, jazz, big band, classical, blues...
What's your favourite food?
I love Indian and Italian food (basically curry and pizza!)
Tell us a joke.
Why did the scarecrow get a promotion, because he was out-standing in his field!
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