Freya Lloyd

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Platform Engineer at Thistle Mobility | ex-Sainsbury's

Thistle Mobility
Leeds, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
3+ years experience
London School of Economics
English
Open to work
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Overview

3 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Thistle Mobility, where I work on the developer platform team. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 50 million requests a day. Previously at Sainsbury's.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in platform engineering
  • Working sessions on CI/CD
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on service mesh decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers

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Skills
BazelKubernetesCI/CDobservabilityGoBackstageservice mesh
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Staff Platform Engineer roles in robotics - Leeds or remote

Target roles
Staff Platform Engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Industries
Fintech, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UK
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where platform engineering is core to the product.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

3 years in platform engineering. Strongest at Bazel and Kubernetes. Open to the right conversation.

Leeds, UKbackstageci/cdobservability
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Experience

  1. Platform Engineer
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Thistle Mobility · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 2.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 531ms to 177ms.
    • Moved 68% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
    Sainsbury's · 11 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 44% in two quarters.
    • Moved 85% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. London School of Economics
    BSc, Information Technology
    2019 - 2022

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