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Darren West

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Darren West

Worked on the utilitywarehouse/kafka-cluster-config repository to enhance Kafka infrastructure using Terraform and AWS. Delivered features such as real-time event processing by integrating new Kafka consumers for Okta v6 data, and launched a dedicated pilotcd topic with retention and security configurations. Improved infrastructure reliability by standardizing TLS certificate naming and aligning resource names for dev-enablement modules, reducing misconfiguration risks. Provisioned a pre-created MSK topic with compression and tiered storage to unblock a critical migration, codifying topic provisioning for future reuse. Demonstrated strong Infrastructure as Code practices, cross-team collaboration, and a focus on maintainability and secure, consistent resource management.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

8Total
Bugs
1
Commits
8
Features
4
Lines of code
70
Activity Months3

Your Network

45 people

Same Organization

@utilitywarehouse.co.uk
3

Shared Repositories

42

Work History

March 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary focused on enabling BEX migration by provisioning a pre-created MSK topic and strengthening Kafka operations, with a clear business value and reusable IaC practices.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly focus on Dev Infrastructure Resource Naming Consistency in utilitywarehouse/kafka-cluster-config. Implemented alignment of the dev_enablement_pilotcd_worker consume group naming with the established convention to ensure consistent resource naming across dev-enablement infrastructure, improving reliability of dev/test environments and reducing misconfig risks. This work is backed by commit 72ceef0b4bb7ec02274d717e436743d655da1fd6.

December 2024

6 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 - Focus: utilitywarehouse/kafka-cluster-config. Key deliveries advanced data processing, dev-enablement capabilities, and security posture: - Staff API Kafka integration for Okta v6 data: added Kafka consumers to ingest account_identity_staff_okta_v6 events, enabling real-time processing in Account-Identity and Account-Platform. - PilotCD Dev Enablement Topic Launch: introduced a new pilotcd topic with configured retention, remote storage, and a shared TLS module; added producer and consumer for pilotcd. - TLS certificate naming corrections for PilotCD in dev-enablement: standardized TLS common name configurations across PilotCD components for secure, consistently named resources.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.0%
Maintainability95.0%
Architecture95.0%
Performance90.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

HCLTerraform

Technical Skills

AWSInfrastructure as CodeKafkaTerraform

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

utilitywarehouse/kafka-cluster-config

Dec 2024 Mar 2025
3 Months active

Languages Used

HCLTerraform

Technical Skills

AWSInfrastructure as CodeKafkaTerraform