Platform/Infra Engineering Lead at YAGRO

I led the infrastructure/platform team, driving critical modernisation initiatives that transformed our engineering operations and established scalable foundations for growth.

Key Achievements

Cost Optimization

• Worked with the team to eliminate cost spikes, reducing AWS costs by 80% through improved resource management and optimisation
• Implemented monitoring and alerting systems to prevent future cost overruns
• Established cost-aware architecture practices across engineering teams

Infrastructure Modernization

• Spearheaded complete infrastructure migration to Terraform, implementing infrastructure-as-code practices across all environments
• Eliminated manual infrastructure changes, reducing errors and improving consistency
• Created reusable Terraform modules enabling rapid environment provisioning

CI/CD Excellence

• Designed and built comprehensive CI/CD deployment pipelines, streamlining delivery processes and reducing deployment friction
• Reduced deployment time from hours to minutes
• Enabled engineering teams to ship features faster with confidence

Database Migration

• Led database migration to Amazon Aurora, improving performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Implemented automated backup and recovery procedures
• Reduced database operational burden on engineering teams

Developer Empowerment

• Empowered engineering teams by providing robust tooling and self-service capabilities for development environment deployments
• Created internal developer platform reducing environment spin-up time from days to hours
• Implemented standardized development environments ensuring consistency

Culture & Impact

Focused on building a platform-first culture that enabled engineering teams to move faster whilst maintaining stability, security, and cost efficiency.

The work done during this period established the technical foundation that allowed YAGRO to scale its engineering organisation and product offerings without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.