Martyn Bristow

Profile

I'm an Agile Coach and Cloud Developer based in Manchester.
I have a broad technical experience from working in multidiscipline teams. My core technical stack is Python with FastAPI, with VueJs, delivered on Civo or Kubernetes, now actively learning Go
I primarily use Prometheus & Grafana for observability and monitoring. Outide work I'm a camponoligist and a volunteer heritage railway guard, with 4 cats.

Experience

Thermo Fisher Scientific

UK: Remote

Release Train Engineer | Compliance Support

Dec 2021 - Present

Coach senior leaders on product thinking, enable ARTs to deliver with quality in regulated environments, and build communities of practice (book clubs, communities, internal training).
  • Configuration of Jira/Confluence for compliant SDLC workflows
  • Managemnt of KPIs for Engineering Leaders
  • SDLC Compliance for a regulated environment
  • Developmet of Python tools for reporting
  • Establish the Agile Community Book Club
  • Jira/Confluence
  • Python
  • SAFe
  • Portfolio
  • Agile
  • GAMP

BT - Security

Manchester, UK

Senior Consultant - Release Train Engineer

Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

Kickstarting a small Agile Release Train with a 90% commitment rate
  • Delivering SAFe Training to team members
  • Coaching in Lean Product Management
  • New application MVP in 3 weeks
  • Python
  • QA
  • Agile
  • SAFe

Senior Consultant - Test Engineer

Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Performance Testing of Streaming Applications with Kafka
  • Management of the Functional Test Suite
  • Engagement of wider stakeholders in new analytical techniques
  • Used facilitation to drive a high performance team culture
  • Performance Testing
  • Python
  • QA
  • Agile
  • SAFe
  • Scrum

Dream Agility

Manchester, UK

Data Pipeline Application

Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

Delivery of an ETL Pipeline with a Flask Web Application
  • Edge AI Model Analysis
  • Deployment to Google Cloud & Kubernetes
  • Automated Testing Suite
  • Intengration with other services
  • Observability Suite
  • Flask
  • Pub/Sub
  • Celery
  • Observability
  • Kubernetes'
  • GCP
  • C#/Unity

dunnhumby

Machester, UK

Test Engineer | Scrum Master

Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Promote Agile mindset and adoption within teams
  • Testing GDPR Scala applications on Apache Spark on Google Cloud
  • Management of Intern Student
  • Spark
  • Scala
  • Data Processing
  • Testing
  • Scrum
  • Kanban

UK Govenment

Machester, UK

Developer | Scrum Master

May 2018 - May 2019

  • Scrum Master for Development team improving collaboration and delivery of software
  • Developed Puppet Modules for Automated Deployments
  • Develop Python Framework for Testing Internal Systems
  • Champion LGBT+ Inclusion within my Workplace
  • Scrum/Agile
  • Docker
  • Puppet
  • LGBTQ+

Nokia

Cambridge, UK

Software Automation Test Engineer

Jun 2016 - May 2018

  • Design and Implimentation of Automated Test Cases for HTTP Delivery Testing
  • Implimentation of Kickstart for RedHat Linux VMs
  • Load and Soak Testing for HTTP Server Applications
  • Ansible Playbook Curration
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • RedHat Linux
  • Test Design
  • HTTP

Education

BSc Mathematics Statistics Computing

Liverpool John Moores

Oct 2007 - May 2011

Software Development | Database Design | Machine Learning | Statistics
photo of me

Skills

    • Development
    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
    • Caddy
      Programming
    • Python
    • Go
    • Scala
    • HTML (inc Jinja)
    • CSS/JS
    • SQL
    • Bash
      Frameworks
    • FastAPI/Flask
    • Hugo
    • SQLAlchemy
    • VueJs
    • Ansible
    • Puppet
    • Helm
      Developer Tools
    • git
    • Docker
    • Jenkins
    • Civo
    • Google Cloud
    • Prom/Grafana
    • InfluxDb
    • Terraform
    • Pulumi
      Testing
    • RobotFramework
    • BDD
    • K6s (Performance)
    • Gabbi HTTP

Languages

  • English
    Native

Interests

  • Campanology
  • Muay Thai
  • Cycling/Running