Rob Dyke

Program Transformation, Public Sector.

• Data driven delivery refactoring achieving 25% reduction in back flow, 40% increase in coding days
• Designed agile practice programe for 60 engineers/operations colleagues

Home Affairs portfolio.

• SecDevOps application pipeline delivery assurance - Lead architect, £500k
• Availability and Capacity managment for on-prem & cloud platform at Secret and Offical - Lead architect, £500k
• Coach on Coretex graduate and apprentice skills program, a social value initiative

• Established the UK Cloud and Edge Engineering Chapter, growing to ~100 Engineers
• Commercial successes - architect of winning £1m fintech, £1m insurance, £1m cyber bids
• Azure migration - Lead engineer, 200 apps, 30 engineers, Insurance org
• Cloud Landing Zone - Lead engineer, Azure DevOps & Bicep, 25 engineers, Airport
• SecDevOps transformation - Lead engineer, 300 controls and guardrails, 30 engineers, fintech

Product Owner and Technical Authority for Cloud Transformation programme.

• Defined cloud governance controls achieving a compliant, secure, cost-effective and resilient Azure estate.
• Reduced Azure spend by £400k (20% saving) by refactoring workloads.
• Improved security posture with secure-by-design Azure landing zone using Blueprints and NIST policy.
• Increased cloud skills across Technology group (~180 people) with 50% achieving AZ900 certification.
• Manager of Data Platform Team and Operations Team (~15 engineers).

Engaged by CIO of Trust to remediate technical debt on a high-profile digital patient safety project.

• Setup multi-cloud CI/CD pipeline using AWS for build and test, and deploy to Azure.
• Identified bottlenecks in the application architecture by adding Promethus & Grafana to the build pipeline and implementing load simulation tests.
• Remediated performance and stability problems caused by poor SQL queries and framework components.
• Improved user experience by optimising CSS rendering for mobile and print.
• Documented hand-offs between Operations Team and 3rd-party Delivery team and coached incident response practices.
• Dockerised and automated testing for User Acceptance and Change Approval processes using Travis-CI.
• Containerised the application stack and deployed to Azure using ACS.

Led engineering of platform for digital health and care services using open source and open standards. My design was adopted by NHS Digital as the blueprint for the Open Platform Definition.

• Engineered platform built on openStack, deployed with Terraform, using custom VM images created with Packer, and shared storage on glusterFS.
• Containerised applications deployed to Docker Swarm using Ansible.
• Dockerised third-party applications developed in Angular, React, Java, Python and Livecode.
• Created developer toolkits based on Docker and Vagrant (e.g. livecode-community-server)
• Built CI pipeline using Travis-CI

Co-founder of a healthcare technology company that became internationally recognised for its open source nursing application ‘open-eObs’, an e-observations and ward management platform for Acute and Mental Health hospitals.

open-eObs was widely acknowledged as an exemplar open source project in health and social care. NHS England included case studies on open-eObs in the prospectus for Tech Fund award initiatives (2012 and 2014) and over £1m was awarded to Trusts to adopt it. Open-eObs is central to the Global Digital Exemplar program at South London and Maudsley (2017) and most recently attracted £800k in grant awards from Innovate UK (2019).

• Recruited 10 developers and supported professional development with agile / continuous appraisals.
• Wrote successful bids for Govt Innovation Challenge Funds: Interoperability Toolkit (£100k), Information Sharing Challenge Fund (£100k), and Safer Wards, Safer Hospitals (£200k).
• Contributor to NHS England’s Technology Strategy on the use of open source.
• Contributor to NHS England’s healthcare app policy, reviewing technical assurance methodology.

In the wake of Wannacrypt I created an open-source desktop operating system based on Ubuntu for the NHS. I demonstrated NHoS to NHS England CIO & CISO, urging them to consider Microsoft alternatives following cyber-attacks.

• Led 15+ member developer community.
• Setup multi-cloud CI/CD build chain using AWS for packages and Packet/Scaleway for baremetal.
• Published nightly builds of ISO image from CI/CD pipeline using Travis-CI.
• Engineered a solution to run Windows clinical systems within Ubuntu using hidden Vagent boxes and seamless RDP (video).
• Proved that the NHS Smartcard Identity Agent could be cross-platform by reverse engineering the smartcard library and embedded certificates (video / article)
• Won major funding from NHS Code4Health & Apperta Foundation
• Reported in The Register and EU Open Source Observatory

• Contributor to articles on open-source in healthcare and peer-review of editoral content.
• Replatformed failing ‘home-brew’ CMS to Wordpress on AWS, migrating 10540 articles with zero data loss.

• Consultant on reference architecture for NHS England digital roadmap.
• Mentoring of health-tech start-ups with TechUK