Duncan White
CSG Techical Coordinator
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan White is a veteran Unix/Linux systems engineer and programmer with over 30 years of coding experience and more than two decades supporting academic computing at Imperial College London. As CSG Technical Coordinator he blends hands-on Solaris/Linux administration with rigorous infrastructure-as-code practices—what he calls “ruthless automation”—to keep large teaching and research systems reliable and maintainable. He has moved between senior management and technical leadership roles, preferring deep technical mentorship and pragmatic system design to day-to-day people management. Proficient in C and Perl, Duncan also has a strong background in teaching operating systems and designing lab infrastructure, reflecting an ability to translate complex concepts into operational solutions. Based in London, he is known for steady stewardship of critical campus services and for applying programmer discipline to sysadmin problems that often sit behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2-1 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing, 2-1 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing at Imperial College LondonDr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Github Skills (72)
camelcase10
euler10
tuple10
python10
null-safety10
janet10
gnat10
bash10
perl10
fennel10
ruby10
lua10
ada10
sed10
excel10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dcw803/perlweeklychallenge-club
Apr 2019 - May 2023
Knowledge base for Perl Weekly Challenge Club members.
Contributions:399 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
membersknowledge-baseperlknowledge
ImperialCollegeLondon/csg-mini-maint
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:196 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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