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Zain Kamran Sharma

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Engineering Manager at Dovetail Health | ex-Barclays

Works at
Dovetail Health
Location
Glasgow, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
University College Dublin
Languages
English

Overview

Engineering Manager at Dovetail Health, focused on cloud infrastructure. Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion. Led the migration of 52 services to Kubernetes. Before that: Barclays and Rolls-Royce. Most at home with incident response and Go. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on Go
  • Questions about cloud infrastructure
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
GoKubernetesPrometheusAWSTerraformincident response
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a data engineer who has worked on AWS at scale

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$161k-$229k + equity
Team
Infrastructure, 18 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp £109k-£136k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Glasgow, UKincident responsekubernetesgo

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2024 - Present
    Dovetail Health · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 12 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 6.
    • Moved 72% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
    Barclays · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
    • Wrote the AWS service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
    Rolls-Royce · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
    • Moved 75% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
    Bloomberg · 3 yr · Contract · Glasgow, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 4.
    • Wrote the Prometheus service that now handles 73 million requests a day.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Feb 2016
    HSBC · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Glasgow, UK
    • Shipped 20 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 23 a week to 2.

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Education

  1. University College Dublin
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2008 - 2011

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