Louise Rees

Site Reliability Engineer, Barclays - Go · Kubernetes · Prometheus

Barclays

Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

1+ years experience

University of Bristol

English

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Overview

Site Reliability Engineer at Barclays, focused on cloud infrastructure. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 384ms to 160ms. Collector of fountain pens.

Good reasons to reach out

Mentors who have done this before
Second opinions on Prometheus decisions
Working sessions on Kubernetes

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Offshore staffing offers
Requests to fix your code for free
Generic networking requests

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills

AWSTerraformKubernetesincident responseGoPrometheus

LearningLearning something

closes in 3 months

Learning incident response - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Build a portfolio project in cloud infrastructure that I'd be proud to show.
Where I am now: Beginner
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in cloud infrastructure for a few years
Cadence: Weekly
What I can offer back: Testing and feedback on your projects

1 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

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Experience

Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2025 - Present
Barclays · 1 yr · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Shipped 19 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
- Moved 65% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 34% in two quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from infrastructure

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling cloud infrastructure.

Write-up: cloud infrastructure in practice

2022

A long-form guide to cloud infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

University of Bristol
BSc, Computer Engineering
2022 - 2025

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