Adrian Plummer
Technology Manager Education, Enterprise And Research Solutions
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Plummer is a seasoned technology manager and DevOps-minded Linux systems engineer with over 19 years supporting complex IT environments in higher education, health, and scientific research. Based in Sydney, he leads delivery teams at UNSW to develop and support education and research technology platforms, blending hands-on SysAdmin skills with cloud-native practices since 2017. Proficient in Python, Bash, Linux, and core infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, Samba, Apache), he champions reliable, reproducible operations across heterogeneous equipment and user needs. His background in electrical engineering gives him a hardware-aware perspective that informs pragmatic infrastructure decisions and troubleshooting. Known to describe himself as an “old-Linux-SysAdmin-wanna-be-DevOps-Engineer,” he pairs humility with a steady track record of evolving teams and systems toward modern tooling. Adrian’s career shows a rare continuity of institutional knowledge combined with a clear drive to adopt AWS and automation to future-proof research and teaching platforms.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma in Engineering (Electrical), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Associate Diploma in Engineering (Electrical), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Mt. Druitt TAFEBlaxland High School, Blaxland, NSW, Australia
English
Github Skills (5)
amazon8
amazon-web-services8
aws8
ansible6
indico2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
McKemmish-Group/Diatomic-Constants-Online-Database
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
aplummerunsw/packer-windows
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Windows Templates for Packer: Win10, Server 2016, 1709, 1803, 1809, 2019, 1903, 1909, 2004, Insider with Docker
Contributions:31 pushes in 1 year 2 months
windowspackerdockerinsiderwin10
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