Christopher Archibald
Mechanical Maintenance Technician at Sterling Pharma Solutions
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Archibald is a Mechanical Maintenance Technician with 11 years of hands-on experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, currently supporting cGMP API production and ADC bioconjugation services at Sterling Pharma Solutions. He combines strong mechanical and electrical skills—ranging from pump and gearbox repairs to medium/low-voltage isolations and pipework modifications—with disciplined SAP and permit-to-work practices to keep large-scale plant operations compliant and reliable. Trained through a rigorous apprenticeship and HNC-qualified in mechanical engineering, he focuses on preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and plant upgrades that reduce downtime and improve process robustness. Unusually for a maintenance specialist, he also contributes to open-source DevOps tooling—developing a NetApp ONTAP Ansible module—bringing automation and backend systems thinking to industrial maintenance workflows.
11 years of coding experience
BTEC Level 4 HNC in Mechanical Engineering, Distinction, BTEC Level 4 HNC in Mechanical Engineering, Distinction at Tyne Metropolitan CollegeCompEx Foundation in Hazardous Awareness (Expires June 2026), CompEx Foundation in Hazardous Awareness (Expires June 2026) at AIS TrainingEAL Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Mechanical Maintenance, EAL Level 3 NVQ Extended Diploma in Engineering Mechanical Maintenance at TDR Training LtdGCSE, GCSE at Longbenton High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible10
networking7
data-storage7
version-control7
git7
documentation5
api-design5
restful-api5
rest-api5
api-rest5
automated-tests4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2018 - Aug 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:233 commits, 243 PRs, 168 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on developing a new module for the NetApp ONTAP system, specifically for managing broadcast domains. Their work involved writing the Python module, na_ontap_broadcast_domain, which allows users to create, modify, and delete broadcast domains. The user's contributions included implementing the initial module, fixing pep8 errors, and addressing issues related to documentation and compilation. Additionally, the user worked on the NetApp-Lib module.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
carchi8py/ansible
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications — automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/
Contributions:8 PRs, 242 pushes, 103 branches in 5 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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