dougalrea

Senior Dev Ops Engineer

A highly technical Senior DevOps Engineer with a unique background spanning blockchain, AI, and environmental engineering. Currently leading cloud architecture and security at VeChain, Dougal also serves as CTO for MeterMate, a decentralized application he co-founded on the VeBetterDAO. With deep expertise in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and IaC (CDK, Terraform), he has a proven track record of migrating complex systems and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automations. They hold a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and bring a strong research-driven approach to engineering.


Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $110,000

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom


Experience

DevOps Engineer
Echobox Ltd
2021 - 2024
Managed infrastructure-as-code for a variety of services using AWS CDK. Optimised cloud infrastructure reliability, security, and availability/uptime via Kubernetes via custom configurations in Helm.
Environmental Building Services Engineer
Ritchie+Daffin
2020 - 2021
Mechanical & electrical engineering with environmental design to improve energy efficiency of houses, theatres, apartment & schools.
Chemical Engineering & Client Solutions
Lake Parime
2019 - 2020
Produced two white papers on liquid immersion cooling of blockchain mining hardware based on chemical and mechanical engineering research. Prepared presentations and led meetings with prospective clients.
Research Chemist
Brechin Research Team
2018 - 2019
Designed, synthesised and analysed two unprecedented molecules for use in inorganic ‘single molecule magnet’ coordination.

Skills

aws
ci-cd
cloud-engineer
dapp
docker
full-stack
gcp
infrastructure
kubernetes
linux
mongo
node
python
react
typescript
devops
english