Ben West

Devops, games, personal blogging

Welcome to the blog of Ben West - Devops

I am an IT professional with over 14 years working for a number of large outsourcing companies contracted to a multitude of public sector and private clients within the U.K.
I have held many roles in this time, including infra engineering (and it’s spiritual sucessor ‘devops’) mostly. I have also been a delivery manager, technical trainer in a past life.

I try to be an active member of the IT community as much as possible.

Code gets published on Github so others can have a look (or maybe laugh at) what I do!

This blog got a reboot after having one many years ago I never updated. Now I think it will be valuable again even if it is just for me to have somewhere to drop ideas off and I can laugh at when I look back.
Or maybe I’m getting forgetful in my old age!

Hobbies

  • SCUBA Diving
  • Climbing / Bouldering

Interests

  • Automating all the things
  • Docker and Docker orchestration
  • Hobby electronics / embedded systems (STM32 / Arduino etc.)
  • A.I and machine learning
  • Cryptography and computer security
  • Continuous integration and delivery
  • Website Builds, different frameworks etc.
  • Logging, monitoring and alerting