Tristan Findley
Technical Team Lead & Platform Engineer
Security-first, automation-first infrastructure
I’m a DevOps engineer with two decades building secure, automated infrastructure across defence, sovereign cloud, telecommunications, biotechnology, and higher education. Security-first by training, automation-first by instinct — I came to DevOps from the Ops side, and I build platforms that work, and keep working long after I’ve moved on. I write about the work, the tools, and the people side of it here.
Currently#
DevOps Engineer & Change Manager at VIB in Belgium. Building secure, automated infrastructure for genomic research — chairing the Change Advisory Board, coordinating Major Incidents, and driving NIS2 adoption across critical research infrastructure. Selectively open to senior (IC) platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE conversations in the EU.
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Featured reading#
Lab Outage
Building a Certificate Manager for Hashicorp Vault
Building a Self-Signed Certificate Authority
Get in touch#
The fastest path is to book 30 minutes on cal.com — best for first conversations, role discussions, or anything time-bounded.
For everything else, use one of the links above the typewriter (LinkedIn, email, GitHub), or browse the FAQ first.