01Platform delivery
3–6 weeks → 1–2 hours
Reduced environment delivery from a multi-week request process to a repeatable internal platform workflow.
Platform engineering • Kubernetes • Developer experience
UK · Open to ambitious platform challenges
01 / Introduction
David Collom
I help engineering organisations build platforms that developers love.
Hands-on platform leader. Software engineering foundations. Less toil, better paved roads, faster teams.
02 / Evidence
Proof over promises.
The thread through David's career is simple: find the engineering friction, understand the system around it, then build a better path.
02Operational scale
400+ e-commerce sites
Built and supported the infrastructure and automation behind a large, PCI-conscious hosting estate.
03Community contribution
KubeCon + ArgoCon
Shares honest, practical lessons from building and operating Kubernetes platforms at scale.
03 / Focus
Platforms are products. Engineers are their users.
Platform engineering
Self-service foundations, paved roads and guardrails that make the right path the easy path.
Developer experience
Removing friction from build, delivery and operations so engineers can stay focused on their product.
Reliability & automation
Kubernetes, SRE, GitOps, FinOps and AI-assisted operations shaped around useful outcomes.
Technical leadership
Setting direction, making trade-offs visible and staying close enough to the work to keep strategy honest.
04 / Philosophy
“I enjoy removing friction from engineering organisations — through better platforms, smarter automation, AI-assisted operations, and giving developers the tools and confidence to move faster.”
Software engineer by foundation. Platform engineer by instinct. Pragmatic builder throughout.
05 / Connect
Have an ambitious platform challenge?
Let's talk about the systems, platform and organisational friction standing between your engineers and their best work.