DevOps Engineer

Microsoft Alumni

Biography

Owen Letts is a DevOps Engineer alumni of Microsoft. His career interests include automation, infrastructure as code, containerisation, orchestration and reducing technical debt. During his free time he likes to go to gigs, travelling, cycling, rock climbing and tasting the many varieties of beer the world has to offer. He has recently come back from a career break to travel the world and is eager to help bridge the gap between Dev and Ops, in his favourite city of London.

Interests

Automation
Cloud
Cycling
Music
Climbing

Education

MSci in Natural Sciences, 2015
University of Nottingham

Skills

My proficiency level for different technologies

Python

60%

GitLab CI and Admin

90%

Terraform

50%

C#

70%

Linux

60%

Grafana and Prometheus

75%

Git

70%

Kubernetes

30%

Puppet

80%

Projects

Personal projects that I do for learning and fun.

Personal Site

This is the project for the website you are currently looking at. Made with Hugo and the Academic Theme template, this project is a generated static website from Markdown. Further technical details are found in the README and documentation for the project.

Recent Posts

Check out my recent blog posts below!

Evolving this Website

Before I could start creating new content for this site I had to change a lot to get it working again, to be in a more reliable situation going forward and to make it a project I was proud to show off.

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024 4 min read

Evolving this Website

Rebooting the Site

I’ve not given enough love to this website in the last few years. So I’m coming back with more energy than ever and looking to enhance the site and add more content continuously going forward.

Last updated on Oct 12, 2024 2 min read

Rebooting the Site

Adding Custom Icons to the Hugo Academic Theme

Veering away from the type of content that I’ve been writing so far I thought I would cover a technical tutorial on how to use custom icons in the skills section of the Academic theme in Hugo.

Last updated on Oct 12, 2024 5 min read

Adding Custom Icons to the Hugo Academic Theme

Activities Galore

This post is part of a series detailing my activities, thoughts and feelings as I make a five-week expedition across the beautiful lands of New Zealand (NZ). Day 4 - Glowing with anticipation I finally manage to get a good nights sleep and feel a little more human, although I’m still slightly on edge.

Last updated on May 7, 2024 8 min read

Activities Galore

This post is part of a series detailing my activities, thoughts and feelings as I make a five-week expedition across the beautiful lands of New Zealand (NZ). The early bird gets to check-in Upon packing my bags with the most elaborate set of items that will allow me to carry them both by air and by bike I get an “early” (11pm) night as I have to get up for 6am on the first day of my travels.

Last updated on May 7, 2024 11 min read

Auckland Tales

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