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A DevOps Engineer with a broad range of experience from system administration to web development and everything in between, with over 9 months of professional and a decade of hobbyist experience and a focus upon security.
Experience
Glamorous AI - April 2022 onwards
Neopay Ltd - June 2019 to August 2019
Junior System Administrator and Web Developer, Internship
- Worked on redesigning their Wordpress website and was involved in the migration of the old site away from AWS and the deployment of the new site to a shared hosting provider, which allowed them to cut hosting expenses significantly upon deliverance.
- Deployed a ticketing system running on LAMP with TLS certificates to AWS allowing for more efficient handling of end user problems.
- Monitored intrusion detection systems and overall helped maintain the security of employee computers in a BYOD environment.
Salvation Army UK – During July 2015
Web Content Editor, Internship
- Updated and digitized records which uncovered discrepancies, solved through correspondance, allowing the charity to keep contact information up to date.
- Inputted copy and records into a Drupal website which sped up the eventual deployment to production of said website.
Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification - 7th September 2021
- Completed on self-hosted infrastructure; DNS Server (KnotDNS) and Web Server (NGINX).
London Metropolitan University – 2017 to 2020
BSc Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity – 1st
- Produced a python chat application with privacy features as a final project.
- Worked on several team projects as part of the degree, producing viable solutions to provided problems.
- Learnt digital forensics procedure, offensive and defensive computer security methodologies and a background in ethics, including how ethics applies to the field.
Highams Park Secondary School & College – 2013 to 2017
- A Level: Computer Science (B), Chemistry ©, Physics (D)
- GCSEs: 10 (1A*, 7A, 1B, 1C) including Maths and English
Personally-developed Skills
- Maintaining extensive personal infrastructure ranging from self-hosted Email and SSO without significant expenditure on top of a cloud provider using Pulumi, Terraform and Nix.
- Historically managed my own Git and DNS servers.
- Attained extensive knowledge of the build system and functional programming language Nix and a high degree of familiarity of the distribution of Linux that goes with it: NixOS
- Produced a variety of hobbyist programs in a range of programming languages including: Python, Rust, Go and Ruby.
- Contributed to various open source projects including the C codebase of “imv” and the Nix codebase of “nixpkgs”, including maintaining the package “libreelec-dvb-firmware” for NixOS.