scottwallacesh-web/resume.json

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    "name": "Scott Wallace",
    "label": "Consulting Linux Systems Engineer",
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    "email": "scott@wallace.sh",
    "url": "https://scott.wallace.sh",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "city": "London",
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      "name": "Suborbit Ltd",
      "position": "Director",
      "startDate": "2008-07-01",
      "summary": "Unix and Linux based solutions engineering. Short-term support, long-term contractual arrangements or project-based consultancy.",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Optimal",
      "position": "EdgeOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://thisisoptimal.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-03-01",
      "summary": "Writing self-service tooling for managing Akamai along with configuration management via Terraform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Akamai",
        "Python"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Government",
      "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions",
      "startDate": "2015-07-01",
      "endDate": "2021-03-01",
      "summary": "Implementation and migration of Universal Credit from incumbent system to an AWS EC2-based service.",
      "highlights": [
        "Java support",
        "Puppet",
        "Ansible",
        "Python",
        "Jenkins",
        "Linux",
        "Terraform",
        "Zabbix",
        "MongoDB",
        "Kafka",
        "Splunk"
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      "name": "Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Government",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions",
      "startDate": "2014-06-01",
      "endDate": "2015-07-01",
      "summary": "Implementation and migration of Universal Credit from incumbent system to a proof-of-concept, on-premise hosted service.",
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        "Java support",
        "Puppet",
        "Linux",
        "Zabbix",
        "MongoDB",
        "KVM",
        "libvirt",
        "virtio"
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      "name": "De Telefoon Gids, Netherlands",
      "position": "Team Lead",
      "url": "https://www.detelefoongids.nl/",
      "startDate": "2013-04-01",
      "endDate": "2014-04-01",
      "summary": "Led a small team to completely build, maintain and monitor full Continuous Integration development environments using automation techniques providing reliable, repeatable and redundant systems.",
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        "Systems design and architecture",
        "End-to-end systems integration",
        "Systems diagnosis and triage",
        "Systems automation",
        "VMware",
        "Apache",
        "Tomcat",
        "Python",
        "Shell scripting",
        "Amazon EC2",
        "C",
        "MongoDB",
        "DNS",
        "Unix (Linux)",
        "Puppet",
        "Jenkins",
        "Nexus",
        "Sonar",
        "Solr",
        "Lucene",
        "Red Hat JBoss Fuse"
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      "name": "European Directories",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-directories",
      "startDate": "2008-07-01",
      "endDate": "2013-03-01",
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        "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",
        "VMware",
        "Python",
        "Shell scripting",
        "Apache",
        "Tomcat",
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        "C",
        "PHP",
        "MySQL",
        "DNS",
        "UNIX (Solaris & Linux)",
        "Jenkins",
        "Nexus",
        "Sonar"
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      "name": "News UK (formally News International)",
      "position": "Senior Systems Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.news.co.uk/",
      "startDate": "2008-01-01",
      "endDate": "2008-07-01",
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        "Systems design and architecture",
        "End-to-end systems integration",
        "Systems diagnosis and triage",
        "Systems automation",
        "Shell scripting",
        "Apache",
        "IBM WebSphere",
        "PHP",
        "UNIX (Solaris & Linux)"
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      "name": "News UK (formally News International)",
      "position": "Internet Administrator",
      "url": "https://www.news.co.uk/",
      "startDate": "2004-10-01",
      "endDate": "2008-01-01",
      "summary": "3rd-line support for main publications such as Times Online, Sun Online, News Of The World, Dreamteam and others.",
      "highlights": [
        "Systems design and architecture",
        "Production systems administration",
        "Systems diagnosis and triage",
        "Systems automation",
        "Shell scripting",
        "Apache",
        "Tomcat",
        "IBM WebSphere",
        "PHP",
        "DNS",
        "UNIX (Solaris & Linux)"
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    {
      "name": "London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange",
      "position": "Contracting Systems Engineer",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_International_Financial_Futures_and_Options_Exchange",
      "startDate": "2004-05-01",
      "endDate": "2004-10-01",
      "summary": "Systems integration and administration",
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        "Shell scripting",
        "UNIX (Solaris)"
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    {
      "name": "Asserta Properties",
      "position": "Systems Engineer",
      "url": "https://uk.linkedin.com/company/asserta-properties-ltd",
      "startDate": "2001-04-01",
      "endDate": "2004-05-01",
      "summary": "Jack-of-all-trades, including: procuring hardware, cabling and racking, architecture and installation, systems administration and maintenance",
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        "Shell scripting",
        "Apache",
        "Tomcat",
        "PHP",
        "MySQL",
        "SMTP",
        "DNS",
        "UNIX (Solaris)"
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      "name": "Queensland Communications and Networking (QCN)",
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      "startDate": "1998-09-01",
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        "UNIX consulting",
        "Web development",
        "In-house firewall product development, including product design and programming in C",
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        "C",
        "SMTP",
        "UNIX (Solaris & Linux)",
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        "MySQL",
        "Cisco",
        "Apache",
        "DNS"
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      "name": "CoreLogic Australia (formally RP Data)",
      "position": "UNIX Consultant",
      "url": "https://www.corelogic.com.au/",
      "startDate": "1995-04-01",
      "endDate": "1998-09-01",
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        "Database administration",
        "Web development",
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        "Network administration",
        "C",
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        "UNIX (SCO & Solaris)",
        "PHP",
        "MySQL",
        "Cisco",
        "Apache",
        "DNS",
        "Novell Netware",
        "Progress DB",
        "Progress Webspeed",
        "FoxPro"
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      "institution": "Brisbane Boys' College",
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        "Go",
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        "Python",
        "Shell"
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        "oVirt",
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