[ cv / service record ]
Curriculum vitae.
Personnel file Nº AJ-0001
Photo substituted: Arkady — Foundation
Name
Jones, A.
File opened
Jul 2010
Station
London, UK
Assignment
Principal Engineer @ AWS
Status
Operational
[ channels ]
[ 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.
[ service record ]
Amazon Web Services
Principal Engineer
Aug 2023 — presentk8sgpt.ai
Founder (open-source project)
Mar 2023 — presentOpenFeature
Governing Committee
Jul 2023 — Feb 2024CNCF
Tech Lead, TAG App-Delivery
Jun 2021 — Feb 2024Keptn
Advisory Board Member
May 2021 — Sep 2023Canonical
Engineering Director, Kubernetes
Jan 2022 — Aug 2023Led the Kubernetes organisation: product and engineering vision, new MicroK8s capabilities, community ecosystem growth.
Ondat
Advisor (until Akamai acquisition)
Jun 2022 — Mar 2023Civo
Principal SRE
May 2021 — Jan 2022Built super-cluster capabilities, observability, recovery, backup and security systems.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
VP, Site Reliability Engineering
Dec 2020 — May 2021American Express
Engineering Director, SRE
May 2019 — Dec 2020Beamery
Head of Platform & Infrastructure
May 2017 — May 2019Sky
Lead DevOps Engineer
Apr 2016 — May 2017Casewise
Lead Technical Architect
Apr 2015 — Apr 2016Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2013 — Apr 2015BSkyB
Technical Lead, iOS / Mobile
Apr 2011 — Oct 2013Grapple Mobile
Frontend Developer
Jul 2010 — Apr 2011[ 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)