chandler@cork:~$ neofetch
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Chandler Bing
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OSHuman 34, English
HostCork, Ireland
KernelLinux systems engineer
Uptime12 years in ops
Packages34 skills, 6 certs
Shellbash 5.2, some fish
Uptime SLA99.98% last 12 mo
Phone+353 21 555 0148
cat summary.txt
I run Linux fleets for a living. Over 12 years I have looked after roughly 900 hosts across bare metal and cloud, and I like the part where an alert stops firing at 3am because the fix actually held.
My focus is boring reliability: config as code, sane on-call rotations, and cutting toil. On my last team I brought the median incident recovery time from 47 minutes down to 11 over two years.
history --work
Senior Systems Engineer @ Nimbus Harbour Ltd
2020 – present · Cork
- Own a fleet of 640 Linux hosts on 3 data centres, with Ansible playbooks covering 92% of config drift.
- Rebuilt the on-call rotation for 9 engineers and cut after-hours pages from 180 to 40 per month.
- Led the migration off a legacy NFS setup, which removed 2 recurring outage classes and freed 14 TB.
Infrastructure Engineer @ Blackrock Grid Systems
2016 – 2020 · Cork
- Wrote the Terraform modules that stood up 120 VMs and cut new-environment setup from 3 days to 40 minutes.
- Set up Prometheus and Grafana for 70 services, replacing a manual dashboard nobody trusted.
Junior Sysadmin @ Lee Valley Hosting
2013 – 2016 · Cork
- Kept 140 shared web servers patched and running at 99.9% uptime across a small support team.
- Automated nightly backups for 2,400 customer sites, dropping restore requests from days to under an hour.
lsblk --skills
Config mgmtAnsible, Terraform, Nix
ContainersDocker, Podman, k8s
ObservabilityPrometheus, Grafana, Loki
CloudAWS, Hetzner, bare metal
Scriptingbash, Python, Go
Networkingnftables, BGP, WireGuard
apt list --installed
rhcsa v8
cka v1.28
terraform-assoc 003
aws-sysops v3
lfcs 2021
bgp-basics v2
cat education.log
B.Sc. Computer Systems · Munster Technological University (2009 – 2013)
Diploma, Network Administration · Cork College of Computing (2013)
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