Huw Knight

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CTO at Trellis Systems · Platform engineering

Trellis Systems
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
14+ years experience
London School of Economics
English
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I've spent 17 years on platform engineering - first at Indeed, now at Trellis Systems. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 5. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Tesco. Most at home with Kubernetes and Backstage. I write short fiction no one reads.

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Skills
BackstageCI/CDGoBazelobservabilityKubernetesservice mesh
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Hiring a founding frontend engineer for the developer platform team - London or remote

Role
Founding frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$155k-$205k + equity
Team
Developer platform, 17 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with CI/CD Production experience with Bazel Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp £85k-£169k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

London, UK · remote OKservice meshkubernetesbazel
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jun 2022 - Present
    Trellis Systems · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 863ms to 117ms.
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 12 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 20 services to service mesh.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
    Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Backed 12 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
    Tesco · 2 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
    Wise · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 25 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the CI/CD service that now handles 51 million requests a day.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
    Indeed · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 383ms to 123ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. London School of Economics
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2005 - 2008

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