Alex Kearns

Principal Solutions Architect

Bramford, United Kingdom
https://linkedin.com/in/alexjameskearns
Alex Kearns

About

A commercially and technically proven Principal Cloud Solutions Architect with a passion for sharing knowledge, and a curiosity for new technologies.

Experience

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    Principal Solutions Architect @ Ubertas Consulting (part of Devoteam)

    London, UK - Hybrid

    Summary:

    • Leading technical engagements for migration, modernisation, data and AI projects with SMB and Enterprise customers.

    Responsibilities:

    • Being the organisation's AWS Ambassador, responsible for evangelising offerings as well as AWS technologies and best practices.
    • Participating in pre-sales activities, providing the necessary technical expertise to support the sales function.
    • Helping to shape go-to-market strategies and offerings, ensuring they are aligned with customer needs and market trends.

    Achievements:

    • Within a key enterprise account, built a strong relationship with senior stakeholders, resulting in account growth and progression to technical leadership of multiple parallel workstreams.
    • Kick-started use of GenAI as a tool to increase efficiencies in the consulting processes, specifically for discovery and analysis. This heavily utilised Amazon Bedrock.
    • Ran enablement workshops for our customer community to raise awareness of GenAI capabilities resulting in conversion to planning of proof-of-concepts.
    • Spoke at AWS re:Invent in 2023 and AWS re:Invent, AWS Cloud Day Dublin and AWS Summit Stockholm in 2024.
    • AWS
    • Migration
    • Well-Architected
    • Application Modernisation
    • Generative AI
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    Lead Solutions Engineer @ Inawisdom (a Cognizant company)

    Ipswich, UK - Hybrid

    Summary:

    • Delivering cloud-native data & AI solutions for customers across multiple markets and verticals.

    Responsibilities:

    • Acted as technical lead on engagements to ensure the quality bar is maintained.
    • Architected and implemented serverless data pipelines using AWS services (Glue, S3, Athena, Redshift, Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB).

    Achievements:

    • Developed MLOps framework to accelerate ML adoption at scale, subsequently leading an internal working group to standardise the deployment of the MLOps framework across client engagements.
    • Awarded two promotions from Consultant to Senior and latterly Senior to Lead in recognition of my growing responsibilities.
    • Python
    • AWS
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Engineering
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    Cloud Consultant @ BT Global

    Ipswich, UK - Remote

    Summary:

    • Working within the BT Global organisation, I formed part of a team that was responsible for enabling other teams to operate workloads in a secure and best practice manner.

    Responsibilities:

    • Led and enabled cloud adoption initiatives using AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.

    Achievements:

    • Mentored new graduate hires, upskilling them on AWS and Terraform best practices with the goal of passing their 'AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate' exam.
    • Terraform
    • AWS
    • Mentoring
    • Platform Engineering
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    Developer @ ubisend

    Norwich, UK - On-site

    Summary:

    • Producing bespoke AI-driven sales, service and HR chatbots. Began to get hands-on experience with AWS and cloud computing.

    Responsibilities:

    • Built and maintained back-end systems in PHP (Laravel) and Node.js, and front-end applications in React and Vue.js.
    • Improving DevOps culture, including CI/CD pipelines and management of AWS infrastructure.
    • Laravel
    • Node.js
    • MySQL
    • React
    • NLP
    • AWS
    • CI/CD

Education

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