Summary
Edward Dam is an Infrastructure Systems Engineer with nine years of experience building and maintaining resilient OS and hardware platforms for trading systems at ION’s Fidessa Data Centre team. He specialises in Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, virtualization (KVM, VMware), and HPE ProLiant hardware, with hands-on expertise in provisioning tools like Red Hat Satellite, Foreman, and Cobbler. Edward automates at scale using Puppet and Ansible, scripts in Python, Perl, Ruby and Bash, and monitors infrastructure with Nagios while integrating backup and asset tooling such as Cohesity and Device42. He also brings security-focused operational experience with SentinelOne and Rapid7, ensuring production environments meet threat-detection and compliance needs. Based in Stony Stratford and grounded in an electronic engineering degree from the University of Surrey, he quietly combines deep systems craftsmanship with practical automation to keep latency-sensitive trading software reliable.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic Engineering at University of Surrey
English