Andy Foston
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Sky
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Foston is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience evolving from Python software developer to SRE at major UK firms including Sky and Tesco Mobile. He combines a developer’s automation mindset with robust operational experience in NOC roles, cloud tooling and VMware, delivering reliable systems and pragmatic tooling to reduce toil. Comfortable across the stack, Andy has a strong background in Python automation, CI/CD and incident response, and a track record of building CLI and web tools to streamline troubleshooting. Based in Bracknell, he pairs formal training (BSc Computing, Java certification, VMware) with practical production experience gained at scale, and often surfaces operational insights that prevent recurring incidents rather than just firefighting.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computing, 2.2, BSc (Hons), Computing, 2.2 at The Open UniversityEasthampstead ParkVMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V5.1, VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V5.1 at VMware TrainingJava Certified Associate SE5/6, Pass, Java Certified Associate SE5/6, Pass at Oracle
Github Skills (29)
snmpwalk8
heat8
net-snmp6
sdk6
cisco5
openstack5
napalm5
netmiko4
director4
python4
juniper4
vcloud-director4
vcenter3
snmp3
esxi3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andywis/digital-music-stand
Jan 2017 - Nov 2024
No more bits of paper all over the floor
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 11 months
andywis/static-content-generator
Sep 2017 - Dec 2023
a static HTML content generator inspired by Jekyll and Pelican
Contributions:4 reviews, 24 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 years 4 months
rubystatic-htmljekyllcontent-generatorpelican
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