AI-focused Infrastructure Leader with 25+ years of delivery experience. A cross-domain generalist who applies AI to modern software engineering — enabling teams, automating workflows, and accelerating high-quality delivery at scale.

Infrastructure Lead at Thoughtworks

December 2020 - Present | UK

• Leading and growing high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of simplicity, reliability and innovation
• Partnered with AWS to secure record funding for client projects and ensure best practices
• Reduced operational overhead and improved efficiency & time to market through strategic adoption of managed services
• Grew the Infrastructure discipline, inside the company and out, contributing learning materials and videos

Tech Stack: AWS, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Serverless, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab

AWS Cloud Practice Lead, Teamwork/Corexpert consultancy

February 2020 - November 2020 | Singapore

• Enhanced operational resilience by designing and implementing robust cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solutions for clients.
• Achieved significant cost optimisation on cloud bills from GCP/AWS to save clients money.
• Pre-sales on large complex cloud migrations for digital transformation

Tech Stack: AWS, GCP, Cloud, Backup, Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Senior Engineer in Digital Science Platform in Gojek

October 2019 – January 2020 | Singapore

• Developed a process to label new instances to produce costing reports via parameterised Jupyter Notebooks
• Improved system observability and proactive issue detection by instrumenting, exporting, and producing dashboards/alerts using Jsonnet, Grafana, Prometheus, and Go.

Tech Stack: Machine Learning (AI), Prometheus, Grafana, Go

Devops lead at Property Management startup Unee-T

March 2018 - October 2019 | Singapore

• Engineered and automated a CI/CD pipeline for deploying Docker containers on AWS ECS, enhancing deployment reliability and frequency.
• Developed serverless microservices in Golang, focusing on robust integration and operational stability.

Tech Stack: AWS, Go, Docker

Senior devops at Video streaming company Spuul

June 2016 - March 2018 | Singapore

• Ensured high availability and scalability by administrating a complex multi-region, fault-tolerant service on AWS.
• Developed operational tooling using AWS SDK Golang V2 to automate the rollout of ~150 channels on AWS Elemental media services, improving efficiency and consistency.
• Authored a Golang-based static site and playlist generator to optimize video delivery over AWS CDN, enhancing performance and feature set
• Wrote Vue.JS / AWS JS SDK serverless app to ingest video with metadata

Tech Stack: ffmpeg, AWS, Go, HTML, JavaScript (JS)

Managing Director of Webconverger, the Browser Linux distribution

February 2012 - March 2016 | London/Singapore

• Designed, developed, and maintained a leading open-source Web kiosk distribution, ensuring system reliability and security.
• Implemented a configuration and device management service, enabling scalable deployments.
• Maintained system uptime across ~5000 machines through consistent patching and robust operational processes, demonstrating expertise in managing systems at scale.

Tech Stack: Linux, shell, git

Compliance Process Manager at Telecoms Joint venture WAC

July 2010 - February 2012 | London

• Editor of compliance tests for product delivery from Widget Runtime (WRT) vendors to Joint Venture members
• Lead development on security tools: widget signing and validation tools
• Designed test result reporting system for members and vendors to track their compliance progress
• Presented and represented the company at the Mobile World Congress stand

Tech Stack: Web browsers, mobile

Senior developer at Japanese mobile company Aplix

August 2007 - July 2010 | Guildford, Surrey

• Developing and testing the WebVM browser plugin for exposing device APIs securely on mobile devices
• Contributed to OMTP BONDI, W3C DAP and W3C widgets working groups
• QA for the SDK, an Eclipse based IDE for BONDI widgets and an emulator runtime
• System administrator for our source control, Bug Tracking System (BTS) and services

Tech Stack: JavaScript, PHP, Make, C, Shell, Standards processes

Skills

• Certifications: AWS Certified Professional
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
• Infrastructure & Automation: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Programming Languages: Go, Shell, JavaScript
• Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
• System Reliability: Operational Tooling, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Disaster Recovery
• Distributed Computing: Web (REST), Event-driven design
• Data stores: S3, DynamoDB, SQL
• Tools: vim, git, Make
• Servers: Debian/Ubuntu/AWS or any Unix/Linux system
• Domains: Entertainment, Self service, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Finance
• Methodologies: Agile / continuous integration

Education

• Graduated from the University of Helsinki Computer Science Masters program at the Faculty of Science in 2005 with minors in Management, Mathematics, Statistics, German and the Finnish language

Presentations

• https://www.youtube.com/user/kaihendry