Andy Botting
Technical Lead at Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Botting is a cloud-native Technical Lead with 16 years of experience designing and operating Linux-based infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud platforms across Australia and the UK. He leads infrastructure engineering at the Australian Research Data Commons, blending hands-on systems administration with architectural guidance for OpenStack and AWS deployments. A pragmatic automation advocate, he has deep expertise in Puppet and has contributed OpenStack resource support and validation to the troposphere project, helping codify complex Neutron and Nova configurations for CloudFormation-style tooling. His background in media and research environments (Guardian, NewsCorp, VPAC) gives him a strong operational mindset for large-scale, data-intensive systems. Andy pairs academic grounding (BComp Hons) with a track record of refactoring legacy systems into maintainable, cloud-native services and often surfaces subtle correctness issues through validation and examples.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Honours), Bachelor of Computing (Honours) at University of BallaratCatholic Regional College
Github Skills (11)
aws-cloudformation10
cloud-infrastructure10
openstack10
cloud-services10
openstack-neutron10
n10
python10
ova9
laravel-nova9
troposphere8
aws7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/troposphere
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:8 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of OpenStack resource definitions within the `troposphere` library. Their work involved adding and modifying resource types for OpenStack, specifically focusing on Neutron and Nova services, and included validation logic to ensure the correctness of the resource configurations. They also refactored code, renamed variables, and addressed potential naming conflicts. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in cloud infrastructure by incorporating examples related to autoscaling and load balancing within an OpenStack environment.
aws-cloudformationpythontropospherecloudformationpython3
andybotting/tubechaser
Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
Contributions:21 commits in 11 months
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