Gold Square IT

Consultant DevOps, software development and cloud services
Cloud - Infrastructure - Applications - Containers - Serverless - Automation - CI/CD

Dave Randall

Director and Engineer

Dave is an enthusiastic technologist with a talent for solving problems and realising opportunities.

For example across his three most recent major engagements:

Took on the technical leadership of a platform team and oversaw a surge in both the quality and quantity of feature delivery by improving developer experience and implementing beneficial patterns
Drove a cost optimisation programme that led to a reduction in cloud spend of over 50% in the first two months of joining the business, leading to a yearly saving of over £1m
Deployed a brand new cloud environment for a business with no prior public cloud presence and facilitated the rollout of containerised and serverless workloads

Dave is very flexible and enjoys taking on multiple duties. He is equally happy to get involved with strategic work such as architecture and design, but also tactical work like feature development, writing stories and sharing knowledge.

Dave has a knack for picking up new stacks, tools and languages in short order. However, he has proven track records in implementing DevOps practices, deploying cloud infrastructure as code, writing object oriented applications, rolling out continuous integration/delivery/deployment pipelines and much more.

Engagements

Problems solved

Provide technical team leadership

A team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Dave can help your engineers to deliver by identifying and implementing solutions to pain points.

Successful patterns will be encouraged, while engineers will be given agency and the tools they need to succeed.

Craft quality new and refactored legacy code

Dave equally enjoys writing code from scratch and working on existing projects.

Dave believes that all programming languages are beautiful, but recognises when a certain situation requires a particular language.

Architect and deploy to the cloud

Dave has a proven track record of harnessing the power of the cloud to deliver reliable, scalable, secure and cost effective products and solutions.

Dave has performed projects at various scales with AWS and Azure, and can easily adapt those concepts to other providers.

Automate everything

Dave has a passion for saving time and improving repeatability via automation.

From implementing automatic maintenance processes, enabling customer self-service, and developing highly performant continuous integration and deployment pipelines Dave ensures that less time is spent on "busy work" and more on helping the business to stay competitive.