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.