Harry Lee

Lead DevOps Consultant
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I am a DevSecOps evangelist and an engineer who is passionate about technology and gadgets. My expertise is in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions, propagating the DevOps culture and providing DevOps training across the organisation. My mission is to continuously deliver business value and ensuring high availability and scalability of the business.

Work Experience

Lead DevOps Consultant

Melio Consulting | 2019 Jul - Present

I help financial services establish a DevOps culture across the organisation through tooling, testing and training. I also help companies navigate the cloud-native landscape by evaluating and integrating various technologies with the client’s technology stack.

  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Huawei Cloud)
  • Implement cloud-native technology and strategy (Kubernetes / Rancher )
  • DevOps tooling and training (Helm charts / ArgoCD / Jenkins)
  • Help client navigate the cloud-native landscape with CNCF projects

Senior Operations and Infrastructure Developer

Qualica Technologies | 2019 Jan - 2019 Jul

I focused on building Openshift clusters that can be deployed on both on-premise and cloud (AWS) infrustructure.

  • Facilitate hybrid cloud strategy (on-premises and AWS)
  • Implement Openshift
  • Propagate DevOps culture

Lead DevOps Engineer

VAT IT | 2018 Apr - 2019 Jan

I lead the DevOps team at VAT IT. During my tenure, I have coordinated the cloud migration of our systems and successfully migrated 60% of our workload to AWS. I lead the cloud-native and microservices movement within the organisation. This has resulted in the container-first and agile approach to developing our applications.

  • Guide cloud infrastructure implementation
  • Train developement teams on DevOps culture
  • Implement system observability (logging and monitoring)
  • Support CI/CD pipelines

DevOps Engineer

VAT IT | 2017 Jan - 2018 Apr

I started the infrastructure-as-code culture within the team which allowed infrastructure automation that reduced human error and deployment time. We used Jenkins with Docker to facilitate our CI/CD pipelines and the ELK stack with Prometheus for application monitoring and logging.

  • Implement Kubernetes
  • Configure AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Design microservice architecture
  • Infrastructure support of all software applications

Lead Software Engineer and Co-founder

The Inspiration Lab | 2015 Jan - 2016 Dec

The Inspiration Lab was an online marketplace for university graduates seeking employment opportunities. I was the technical lead in the designing and implementation of the platform as well as client facing and project management. Our aim was to streamline the connection between companies and students. Our platform had over 7000 students (spanning across 5 major universities in South Africa) and over 100 companies using our services. The Inspiration Lab attended WebSummit 2015 (Dublin) as an ALPHA startup. The company was eventually disbanded due to a lack of funding."

Organisation / Volunteer

CNCF Ambassador

2020 Apr - Present
Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Organiser

2018 Jun - Present
Cloud Native Computing Johannesburg

Senior Executive Committee

2013 Jan - 2014 Apr
SAIEE-IEEE Student Branch at University of the Witwatersrand

Member

2008 Jan - Present
Golden Key International Honour Society