Darren Smallwood

Darren Smallwood has a diverse range of work experience in the field of DevOps and related roles. Darren is currently working as a Senior DevOps Consultant at Ensono Digital since 2020. Prior to that, they worked as a DevOps Engineer at The Co-operative Bank plc from June 2020 to August 2020. Darren also served as the Head of DevOps at Radius Payment Solutions Limited from November 2019 to June 2020. Before that, they worked as a DevOps Engineer at wejo from March 2019 to November 2019 and as a DevOps Consultant at Amido from January 2019 to March 2019.

Darren has also gained experience in the public sector where they worked as a DevOps Engineer at Transport for Greater Manchester from April 2018 to January 2019. Prior to that, they worked at LexisNexis as a Technical Architect/DevOps from November 2016 to March 2018.

Earlier in their career, Darren worked at Advanced Legal, holding various roles including Site Reliability Engineer (Devops) from May 2015 to November 2016, Quality and Requirements Analyst from January 2014 to May 2015, Test Team Lead from July 2013 to January 2014, and Test Engineer from December 2012 to July 2013. Darren started their professional career as a Test Analyst at Galleria-RTS from August 2006 to December 2012. Darren also gained experience as a Test Analyst at Pipex from an unknown starting date (prior to 2004) to an unknown ending date (before 2006). Overall, Darren has accumulated a strong background in DevOps and related roles over their extensive work experience.

Darren Smallwood attended Middlewich High School from 1997 to 2002. Darren did not obtain a degree or specialize in any specific field of study during their time at the school. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate in May 2020, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in February 2019, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate in April 2020.