service record

Curriculum vitae.

Personnel file Nº AJ-0001
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Name
Jones, A.
File opened
Jul 2010
Station
London, UK
Assignment
Open-source Engineer · Creator of K8sGPT
Status
Operational
[ channels ]
alexsimonjones@gmail.comgithub.com/AlexsJones ↗linkedin.com/in/jonesax ↗sessionize.com/jonesax ↗
[ field summary ]

Individual contributor. My work is mysterious and important. Outside of work I contribute to open source. The things I know about: distributed systems, Kubernetes (exotic compute), systems design, and applications of artificial intelligence in cloud environments.

[ record classification ]

Roles are separated by engagement type, including concurrent service.

Paid employmentCommunity / advisory
[ 01 / primary service record ]

Paid employment

01Amazon Web Services
Principal Engineer
Aug 2023 — present
02Canonical
Engineering Director, Kubernetes

Led the Kubernetes organisation: product and engineering vision, new MicroK8s capabilities, community ecosystem growth.

Jan 2022 — Aug 2023
03Civo
Principal SRE

Built super-cluster capabilities, observability, recovery, backup and security systems.

May 2021 — Jan 2022
04JPMorgan Chase & Co.
VP, Site Reliability Engineering
Dec 2020 — May 2021
05American Express
Engineering Director, SRE
May 2019 — Dec 2020
06Beamery
Head of Platform & Infrastructure
May 2017 — May 2019
07Sky
Lead DevOps Engineer
Apr 2016 — May 2017
08Casewise
Lead Technical Architect
Apr 2015 — Apr 2016
09Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2013 — Apr 2015
10–11Early career archive
Signal degraded · two records recovered
Unseal archive
2010 — 2013
BSkyBTechnical Lead, iOS / Mobilerecord 10 · Apr 2011 — Oct 2013
Grapple MobileFrontend Developerrecord 11 · Jul 2010 — Apr 2011
[ 02 / parallel service register ]

Open source, governance & advisory

OSS

k8sgpt.ai

Founder · Open-source project.

01
Mar 2023 — present
GOV

OpenFeature

Governing Committee

02
Jul 2023 — Feb 2024
GOV

CNCF

Tech Lead, TAG App-Delivery

03
Jun 2021 — Feb 2024
ADV

Keptn

Advisory Board Member

04
May 2021 — Sep 2023
ADV

Ondat

Advisor (until Akamai acquisition)

05
Jun 2022 — Mar 2023
OSS / open sourceGOV / governanceADV / advisory
[ skills ]
Distributed SystemsKubernetesSystems DesignAI in CloudAWSObservabilityDevOpsPlatform EngineeringGoRustLinuxOpen SourceLong-term VisionCommunication
[ selected stages ]
  • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA — 2021, 2022
  • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU — 2023, 2025
[ education ]

Kingston University — First-class BSc (Hons), Computer Science (2007 — 2010)