Robin Lightfoot

📌 London, UK 📧 robin@eelgirl.biz 🔗 eelgirl.biz 🐙 github.com/gilmoregrills

Building platforms, setting standards, developer experience, driving org-wide change, cost management, and good documentation.

Python, Bash, Go, JavaScript, AWS, GCP, AzureAD, Kubernetes (on EKS and GKE), IAC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).

Currently

Beamery, since 2025 Senior Platform Engineer

Helped maintain internal Backstage developer portal.
Core contributor to Terraform module used by product teams to manage their own workloads on Kubernetes, introduced unit tests for Terraform modules.
Built and maintained OPA policy library that enforced platform team standards on Kubernetes workloads.
Maintained internal APIs and Slackbots written in go.
Managed migration away from AWS IAM users for workloads in Kubernetes to roles federated via GCP.
Previously

Tractable, 2019 - 2025 Infrastructure Engineer -> Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Maintained cloud estate while company scaled from <100 to >500 employees.
Built tooling and introduced automations used across our engineering org.
Designed and set standards and processes followed across the company.
Managed multiple whole-company migrations and initiatives, across a range of platforms/technologies.
Participated in, and subsequently ran, the cost management working group, achieving >$1m in annual engineering dept savings.
Lead the DEI working group.

News UK, 2017 - 2019 Product Owner -> Junior Cloud Engineer

Developed orchestration tool in Python to deploy containerised wordpress sites on AWS ECS.
Built out Kubernetes clusters using Jetstack’s Tarmak.

Queen Mary, University of London, 2016 - 2017 MSc Computing and Information Systems

Dissertation: Individualising Head-Related Transfer Functions with Principal Components Analysis and Simulated Annealing based on localization errors in 3D space.

Cohaesus, 2016 - 2016 Junior Developer

University of Winchester, 2011 - 2014 BA Film and Cinema Technologies