About

Father / Systems Engineer / Staff SRE / Engineering Manager.

Professional Summary

I’ve been a developer, Systems Administrator, SRE, and people manager. I can spend all day in a hex editor, or drafting roadmaps for teams to work together on. I’ve led small teams and cross-team projects; I do coaching and mentoring on everything from career goals to communication skills.

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

Skill Summary

• Large-scale system design & architecture
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Mentoring & coaching junior and senior employees
• Monitoring and SLOs
• Data Integrity / backup & restore
• Systems troubleshooting
• Core protocols - DNS, SMTP, LDAP, RADIUS; IPv6
• Tuning and query / index optimisation for databases (MySQL, BDB)
• Coding/scripting (bash, Python, Java/C++/Perl)

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology, Flinders University 2003.
• Certificate IV in Project Management
• On the job! No two tasks are the same, I really enjoy diving in to learn new things.

More?

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