Dean Wilson
Lead SRE at UnixDaemon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDean Wilson is a seasoned infrastructure and reliability leader with 19 years of experience delivering resilient, scalable systems across UK government and major tech organisations. Currently Lead SRE at UnixDaemon, he previously headed engineering and platform teams at the Cabinet Office and Department for Education, blending hands-on ops with strategic delivery. A professional FOSS sysadmin and occasional coder, he has contributed practical improvements to widely used tools like Puppet—adding S3-backed yumrepo support and non-interactive package options. His background spans operations at Mozilla, Net-A-Porter and enterprise environments, giving him deep expertise in open source, compliance (ISO 7799) and event organisation. Published as a technical author and reviewer, he pairs clear documentation instincts with engineering leadership. Based in London, he’s equally comfortable diving into configuration code as he is shaping cross-government platform strategy.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (9)
yum10
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
package-management10
puppet10
devops9
aws7
bash5
python4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Dec 2011 - Oct 2014
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dean made several contributions related to the Puppet configuration management framework. They implemented features to enhance the `yumrepo` type, including the addition of an `s3_enabled` property for accessing S3 repositories and `assumeyes` for enabling non-interactive operation. The commits also addressed issues related to error messages and configuration handling, indicating a focus on improving the usability and functionality of the Puppet system. Additionally, they added and modified code related to package management and user account management.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
deanwilson/puppet-scripts
Mar 2009 - Apr 2016
Short scripts I use around puppet.
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 7 years 2 months
scriptpuppetpuppeteershortpython-requests
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