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Hi, I'm Lewis, the Founder and CEO of Backplane Software. I've been in the tech industry a little over 20 years now, with the last several years heavily focused on Cloud adoption, enablement and governance. I am passionate about technology, both from the engineering perspective, and also from the people perspective.
My background and career in tech has spanned over 20 years.
SaaS-based Startup specialising in Cloud tooling and software to simplify multi-cloud integration and accelerate cloud native transformations.
Leading a team of Cloud Architects, Engineers and Developers to build capabilities around Cloud Adoption, Enablement and Governance.
Managing the IT infrastructure of a transatlantic law firm.
Technical lead and engineer for an IT managed services company
Technical lead and engineer for an IT managed services company
Maintained IT infrastructure and develped a web-based ticketing system deployed across EMEA region. (ASP 3.0, VBScript, MySQL)
Below are a few key projects that I've delivered and which showcase my focus to engineer simplicity to drive business value.
Developed the multi-cloud abstraction API to simplify cloud integration for adoption, enablement and governance.
Developed an automation to audit server-based Administrator access and reconcile against authorisation requests in Service Now. This was post 2017 cyber attack and brough privilege access down from circa ~50k access control entries to less than ~5k, and a non-compliance position of less than 0.1%.
Developed a web-based helpdesk and asset management system in early 2000s, based on ASP/VBScript and SQL Server backend. It was an n-tier architecture and deployed across EMEA region.
I am a big advocate of continuous learning and hold a number of professional certifications. I am a certified Azure and GCP architect.
