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I have been a Linux sysadmin since the late 1990s through to today. In that time I have held a number of roles at various sized organizations, from a dozen people up to several thousand. At the same time I have continued grow my skill-set to reflect the constantly evolving nature of technology and to feed my perpetual curiosity.

As I have progressed through my career I have added tools and processes to my toolbox, including but not limited to, configuration management (CFEngine, SALT, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Rundeck, Ansible Tower/AWX), Revision control (GIT, CVS, SVN, Visual Studio Team System/Team Foundation Server), clustering (Rocks, both vanilla Kubernetes and OpenShift), and "agile" development processes.

For the past decade, I have focused on DevOps and CloudOps. I have personal and professional projects currently running in GCP, AWS, and Azure. Some of the technologies that I use (but not limited to and in no particular order) are containers (AKS and ARO, EKS, ROSA, and ECS, a whole bunch of the Cloudflare stack (cloudflared, DNS, WARP, Zero Trust, R2, and probably more that I am forgetting).

Along with these are the usual suspects of source control (Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos), CI/CD (Jenkins, Rundeck, whatever Ansible Tower is called today, GoCD, and a smattering of others).

About

Hey there. If you are reading this then chances are you want to know a little about me. The short short version is that I am a guy from Western Canada who is a lifelong learner. In addition I have some obvious loves such as hockey, though I also adore Football (Soccer), in particular Newcastle United FC. I play various musical instruments to varying degrees of competency, ranging from barely making pleasant sounds to a competent amateur.

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