Colin Westwater
Scottish VMware User Group Leader at Freelance
Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Westwater is a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer and VMware community leader based in Paisley, Scotland, with nine years of focused experience and a long IT career stretching back to the early 2000s. He currently leads compute platform initiatives at Cigna while also founding and running the Scottish VMware User Group, blending enterprise-scale architecture work with community-driven knowledge sharing. His strengths span Windows, vSphere, technical support and documentation, and he has a track record of mentoring teams and driving process improvements across global organisations. Colin’s background includes hands-on server and network administration in manufacturing and enterprise environments, giving him a pragmatic, operations-first approach to infrastructure design. Notably, he pairs deep platform expertise with a passion for building local tech communities, which helps translate complex architectures into usable, well-documented solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer and Electronic Systems, Computer Science, BSc Computer and Electronic Systems, Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
English
Github Skills (41)
subcommands10
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windows10
linux10
bash10
powershell-module10
bsd10
android10
command-line10
macos10
shell10
documentation10
cli10
microsoft9
microsoft-azure9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cwestwater/cwestwater.github.io
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
www.vgemba.net
Contributions:291 commits, 11 PRs, 278 pushes in 5 years 6 months
cwestwater/Terraform
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Terraform files
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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