Joe Attwood

Joe Attwood

DevOps, Platform & infrastructure engineering, London

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Experience

I came into engineering from analysis, which is still how I approach systems: work out what the data is actually telling you before you change anything.

2023 — present
Sportradar

Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Led migration of production workloads to EKS with ArgoCD and Helm, replacing bespoke deploy scripting with a GitOps path developers can use without platform involvement.
  • Built event-driven autoscaling with KEDA against IAM-authenticated Kafka consumer groups, so consumer lag drives capacity rather than CPU.
  • Replaced legacy ingress with Envoy Gateway, consolidating routing and TLS termination behind the Gateway API.
  • Own the Terraform estate covering EKS, IAM, KMS, SNS/SQS and supporting AWS services.
  • EKS
  • ArgoCD
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Kafka
  • KEDA
  • Envoy Gateway

2020 — 2023
Sportradar

DevOps Engineer

  • Moved batch and streaming pipelines onto managed AWS services — Lambda, Step Functions, SQS — and brought them under Terraform.
  • Introduced GitHub Actions as the standard CI path and cut bespoke per-team pipeline configuration.
  • Set up observability with New Relic and Datadog: service-level dashboards and alerting tied to symptoms rather than resource metrics.
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions
  • Python
  • Datadog

2019 — 2020
Sportradar

Analyst

  • Worked on data quality and integrity for live sports feeds — the domain knowledge that later made the platform work legible.
  • SQL
  • Python

Before tech

Intelligence and police analysis

  • Several years in analytical roles: pattern recognition across noisy, incomplete data, and briefing findings to people who had to act on them. Holds SC clearance (reactivatable).

Certifications

My cat, extremely close to the camera, unimpressed

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