Albert White
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Mastercard
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert White is a hands-on senior engineering leader based in Ireland with 15 years of professional experience and over 25 years of technical depth in Python, UNIX/Linux, CI/CD and automation. At Oracle he grew and transformed a global Software Maintenance Engineering team, driving migrations to Git-based CI/CD, cloud test environments on OCI, and standardising tooling around Django/Flask and Python. He combines deep systems and release engineering expertise (Solaris, ZFSSA, kernel patching/Ksplice, OpenStack testing) with customer-facing troubleshooting and security/audit liaison work. A pragmatic mentor and manager, he introduced Scrumban to improve distributed team delivery and personally led key automation and performance-benchmarking initiatives. Notably, he architected secure-by-default Solaris install profiles and automated zero-reboot kernel patch workflows, demonstrating a rare blend of operational rigor and product-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Astronomy, MSc., Astronomy at Swinburne University of TechnologyBSc., Physics, Computer Science, BSc., Physics, Computer Science at University College Dublin
English
Github Skills (11)
solaris10
python8
backport7
benchmarking7
nagios6
openstack6
openindiana5
clock5
compatibility5
plotly4
pandas3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
albertw/Radio
May 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
oracle/solaris-ips
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Solaris IPS: Image Packaging System
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year
solaris
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