Curriculum Vitae - Tim Gibbon
Tim Gibbon 07977 549 321 [email protected]⌗
Professional Experience⌗
Nov 2021 - Current Engineering Manager, Peak⌗
- Principal Engineer/Tech Lead.
- CloudFormation and Terraform for 100+ AWS Services.
- Redshift and Snowflake Administration.
- Python/AWS CLI.
- RStudio and Jupyter notebook builds and deployment.
- Docker/Kubernetes.
- Serverless.
- Analytical troubleshooting.
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 Senior DevOps Engineer, Peak⌗
- CloudFormation and Terraform.
- CI/CD (Codebuild, CodeDeployment, Github Actions).
- Preparation, Deployment and Auditing to gain and pass SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance.
- Identifying and performing cost optimisation.
- Created templates in AWS Service Catalog conforming to best practices to enable developers to self-serve.
Nov 2014 - Jul 2021 Senior Linux Engineer, UKFast Ltd.⌗
- Linux Administration.
- MySQL clustering, replication, administration and tuning.
- Kubernetes and Docker.
- High Performance Load balancing and Caching.
- Monitoring Grafana/Telegraf/Promtheus/Zabbix/Nagios.
2007 - 2014 Partner, Lunarlite LLP.⌗
2004 - 2006 Senior UNIX Engineer, Orange.⌗
2003 - 2004 Customer Services Engineer, Tower Technology/Vignette IDM.⌗
2001 - 2003 UNIX Technical specialist, GSK.⌗
2000 - 2001 Contractor, Equities Technology, Goldman Sachs.⌗
1999 - 2000 System Administrator, Crown Digital.⌗
1998 - 1999 UNIX Administrator, Investment Property Databank Ltd.⌗
Relevant Skills⌗
- AWS and GKE.
- Python scripting, Golang (learning!), Shell, Perl.
- Kubernetes, K3S and Rancher.
- Virtualisaton and Cross compilation.
- Terraform and Cloudformation.
- Performance and monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Telegraf, sar,Zabbix and munin.
- Database Administration: Redshift, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Redis.
- Linux: RedHat Certified Engineer
- Kepner Tregoe Analytical troubleshooting.
- Bespoke Linux Distribution architecture and creation.
- DBS checked.
- ITIL - Change control, auditing and reporting. SOC2 and ISO27001 auditing.
Education⌗
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
- Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
- Kubernetes: Certified Kubernetes Adminstrator.
- AWS: Certified Solutions Architect (A).
- AWS: Certified SysOps Administrator.
- AWS: Certified Cloud Practictioner.
- AWS: Certified Developer (A).
- Linux: Red Hat Certified Engineer.
- PhD: Laser Photofragment Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecular Ions, 1998
- BSc: Physics, 1994
Other Interests⌗
- Vinyl collector/gig goer.
- Fiction.
- Skiing/Outdoor pursuits.
- Founder member of RossLUG.
References⌗
Available upon request.
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