# Taylor Template

Dublin, Ireland · [+353 00 000 0000](tel:+353000000000) · [taylor@example.com](mailto:taylor@example.com) · [example.com](https://example.com) · [github.com/benkelly/cv-pipeline](https://github.com/benkelly/cv-pipeline)

## Summary

Platform engineer with seven years' experience building cloud infrastructure, developer platforms and reliable services. Enjoys making the safe path the easy path for product teams.

## Experience

### Senior Platform Engineer, Example Cloud Ltd

Dublin, Ireland  
March 2023 – Present

- Lead a team of four running the internal developer platform on Kubernetes for 40 product teams.
- Moved infrastructure to reusable Terraform modules, cutting new-service setup from two weeks to one day.
- Introduced service-level objectives and on-call runbooks, reducing paging alerts by 60%.
- Built a self-service preview environment for every pull request.

### Software Engineer, Acme Payments

Cork, Ireland  
June 2019 – February 2023

- Built and operated Go services handling card authorisations across three regions.
- Designed the multi-region failover plan and ran quarterly game days to test it.
- Wrote observability standards with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.

### Graduate Engineer, Sample Analytics

Galway, Ireland  
September 2018 – May 2019

- Maintained batch data pipelines in Python and Apache Spark.

## Skills

- **Languages:** Go, Python, TypeScript, Bash, SQL
- **Cloud & Infrastructure:** AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker, GitOps
- **Reliability:** Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Incident Response, Post-mortems
- **Security:** RBAC, Just-in-Time Access, PKI, Secrets Management

## Projects

**[cv-pipeline](https://github.com/benkelly/cv-pipeline)**: This CV. One LaTeX file builds standard, accessible, dyslexia-friendly and high-contrast PDFs, plus Markdown, JSON and HTML.

## Education

### Example University - BSc Computer Science, 2018

*Thesis*: “Scheduling batch jobs on spare cloud capacity”