I like to work in a dynamic environment with a trusted team to get jobs done and delivered. The final 20% is always the hardest part to deliver but arguably the most important and I try to deliver on that as often as possible.
Work Experience
Suborbit Ltd
July 2008 – Present
Director
Unix and Linux based solutions engineering. Short-term support, long-term contractual arrangements or project-based consultancy.
Led a small team to completely build, maintain and monitor full Continuous Integration development environments using automation techniques providing reliable, repeatable and redundant systems.
Developed a security mechanism ("Blockinator") to block unwanted web requests in realtime for either Apache or Varnish based on remote IP, Forwarded IP or user-agent.
Developed a flexible deployment system ("BOSS") to allow non-technical users to deploy code to specific environments.
Developed a system ("Autoindexer") to combine various components and automatically build HTML and XML sitemaps on a daily basis