Stuart Dallas

• Building and maintaining a platform for running CS2 gameservers around the world.
• Cloud-based coordination for globally distributed game servers.
• Integration into the FACEIT competitive gaming platform for matchmaking.
• Cloud: Go-based microservice codebase, running on Kubernetes, using MongoDB.
• Edge: Go-based services supervising CS2 game servers.
• Introduced Ansible to streamline edge server provisioning and management.
• Investigated and improved network performance between players and game servers.
• Built internal tools to analyse data in BigQuery and understand network performance.

• Joined the Cards Squad, which handles card issuing and payment processing.
• Go-based microservice codebase, running on Kubernetes, AWS Keyspaces, and Kafka.
• Addressed several areas of long-standing tech debt.
• Improved observability and reduced alerting noise.
• Applied current internal best practices to legacy code.
• Worked on key pieces of the integration with Mastercard.
• Contributed to platform tools and libraries.

• Responsible for the architecture of the product and cloud platforms.
• Worked with the SRE & compliance teams to ensure platform reliability and security.
• Hands-on role in platform development, team mentoring, and code reviews.
• Served as the technical authority on the platform across the company.
• Built several internal CLI tools and web-based (React) frontends.

• Created a secure, remotely-managed platform for installation on customer sites.
• Technology used included Python, Chef, Ansible, MySQL, KMS, OpenVPN, Prometheus/Grafana, Consul/Vault/Nomad, Jenkins, and GitLab CI.
• Built a supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS with Terraform, including large-scale data storage and analysis tooling, and secure remote access to deployed systems.
• Scaled from one installation in 2017 to over 100 as of early 2023.

A representative selection of work undertaken:

• Oxehealth: evaluated options for storing large amounts of video and numeric data.
• Cognitive Logic: reviewed an internal Python project for viability as a standalone product; prepared the codebase for production use.
• Powder Byrne International: PHP/MySQL website, built a custom multi-tenant CMS.
• Travel Weekly Group: recruited and led a team to build a vertical social network using PHP, MySQL, and Neo4j.

• Designed several significant platform features and led their implementation.
• Contributed to the platform architecture, development processes, and QA controls.
• Expanded line management and mentoring responsibilities.

• Ran a team of Scala developers, focused on the ingestion end of the platform.
• Worked with the VP of Engineering to introduce and refine an agile dev process.
• Line-managed and mentored two junior developers.