Stephen Jones

Software Engineering, DevOps & Infrastructure Architecture

LinkedIn • GitHub: @jackofallops

Professional Profile

IT professional with over 25 years of experience spanning physical hardware, global networking, and core software automation for the cloud. Specialist in building simple services and complex ecosystems that are scalable, versatile, and pragmatic.

Core Skills

Development

Go, Python, Rust, Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript, SQL

Infrastructure & Automation

Terraform (Core & Providers), Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker

Cloud & Platforms

Azure (Provider Dev), AWS, OpenStack, VMware vSphere

Networking & Security

Cisco (Routing/Switching), Load Balancing (F5, Zeus), Hardening

Experience

HashiCorp — Senior Engineer II (Azure Providers Tech Lead)

Jan 2020 – Present
  • Technical direction, development, and maintenance of official Azure providers for Terraform (OSS).
  • Collaborated with Microsoft dev teams on resource coverage and core infrastructure stability.
  • R&D focused on reliability improvements in Azure-specific Terraform domains.

Equal Experts — Cloud & Architecture Consultant

Aug 2016 – Jan 2020
  • Architected cloud-first adoption strategies and reference architectures (Freshfields).
  • Led AWS to Azure cloud migration and AKS adoption for retail digital systems (Co-op).
  • Designed collaborative Jupyter/AWS platform for data science teams.

Education & Certifications

Lancaster University

B.Sc. Computer Science and Software Engineering

ITIL V3 Foundation CCNP Level Proficiency CCNA & CCNA Security