Bob Rathbone
Retired IT Engineer at Bob Rathbone Computer Consultancy
Thornbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBob Rathbone is a retired IT engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience designing, migrating and operating Linux-based high-availability server environments for enterprises across the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. He has led SAN migrations, large-scale Red Hat deployments, Puppet automation projects and messaging system upgrades for clients such as IBM, Acision/Mavenir and Johnson & Johnson, and ran his own consultancy for 24 years. Skilled in Red Hat/Debian, LAMP stacks, KVM/VMware virtualization and scripting (Bash, Korn, Perl, Python, JavaScript, JavaFX), he holds LPIC-1/2 and Novell SUSE certifications and continues to keep current with Linux. Although officially retired, he remains active in educational projects (www.bobrathbone.com) and is open to short-term, home-based consultancy and technical documentation work. An often-overlooked strength is his long track record in commissioning and validating safety- and mission-critical systems, combining rigorous documentation with practical commissioning leadership.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Education - Advanced Level Dutch, Dutch/Language and Literature, Certificate of Education - Advanced Level Dutch, Dutch/Language and Literature at University of London (Correspondence)City & Guilds Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronics and electrical engineering, City & Guilds Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronics and electrical engineering at Filton Technical College, Brisol, UKPhysics, General Science and Mathematics, Physics, General Science and Mathematics at Thornbury Grammar - UK
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
mopidy10
mpd10
mpd-client10
audio10
daemon10
audio-player10
music10
spotify-api9
raspbian9
internet-radio9
raspberry9
player9
spotify8
internet8
linux8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bobrathbone/mpdpackage
Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
bobrathbone/pirotary
Jul 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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