Robin Lightfoot 1
📌 London, UK 📧 robinyonge@hey.com 🔗 eelgirl.biz 🐙 github.com/gilmoregrills
Passionate about:
Building platforms, setting standards, developer experience, driving org-wide change, cost management, and good documentation.
Experienced with:
Python, Bash, Go, JavaScript, AWS, GCP, AzureAD, Kubernetes (on EKS and GKE), IAC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
Currently
Beamery, since 2025 Senior Platform Engineer
- Still new :)
Previously 2
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
- Site maintenance and reliability for a range of clients.
University of Winchester, 2011 - 2014
BA Film and Cinema Technologies
- Focused primarily on sound recording and design.