About

Kinda nerdy father; Systems Engineer / SRE / Manager.

Professional Summary

I’ve been a developer (PHP, C, Python, Go), Systems Administrator, SRE, and people manager. I can mess around with system internals, I can lead projects or small teams, I can coach and mentor.

I like to take a step back and ask what problem we’re really trying to solve.

Skill Summary

• Technical leadership
• Team leadership / management
• Communication! Verbal and written
• Coaching and mentoring of junior staff
• Documenting then fixing pesky legacy systems
• Troubleshooting complex environments
• Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo, RHEL)
• Solaris 9, 10
• Virtualisation (Solaris Containers, Linux-VServers, LXC, VMWare, Docker)
• IPv6, Systems & Applications
• DNS (BIND) authoritative & recursive)
• Email stuff (sendmail, IronPort)
• Backups (Legato/EMC NetWorker, Amanda)
• Puppet
• RADIUS
• OpenLDAP, Heimdal Kerberos.
• MySQL tuning, index optimisation
• Monitoring (munin, nagios, collectd, mon)
• Python, C, Go, PHP, HTML/CSS/JS

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology, Flinders University 2003.
• Certificate IV in Project Management
• Various courses - Zend Server, XIV SAN, and IPv6
• On the job! I learn new systems and technologies quickly.

More?

You can read my résumé; you can also check out my my LinkedIn profile.