Chris Betts
Senior Technology Specialist at Telstra
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Betts is a Senior Technology Specialist based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience designing and operating enterprise IT infrastructure for telecommunications and large-scale commercial clients. He brings deep hands-on expertise in VMware ESX, Active Directory, ITIL-aligned service management and IT strategy, honed through long-tenured roles at Telstra and senior consultancy positions across the UK and Australia. Chris has led infrastructure architecture and systems support for complex, high-availability server farms and large data centre migrations, balancing day-to-day incident resolution with strategic platform refreshes. His background includes both practice leadership and third-line technical ownership for financial and retail sectors, demonstrating an ability to translate business needs into resilient operational design. Notably, he took a career-break to travel early in his career, an experience that complements his pragmatic, adaptable approach to problem solving. He combines veteran operational discipline with a track record of delivering repeatable, auditable infrastructure outcomes at scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BTec National Diploma, Computer Science, BTec National Diploma, Computer Science at Lowestoft CollegeBSc, Computing, BSc, Computing at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (11)
ldap-client10
gssapi10
sasl10
ldif10
ssl8
ldap8
security8
java8
saas4
aws-lambda3
aws3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pegacat/jxplorer
May 2016 - Jun 2018
A free java ldap client with LDIF support, security (inc SSL, SASL & GSSAPI), translated into many languages (inc. Chinese), online help, user forms and many other features.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 8 commits in 2 years 1 month
chinesesslsecuritytranslatedldap-client
pegacat/jxplorer-3.3.1.2
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 1 push, 5 branches in 1 day
github-release
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