Gareth Blades
Systems Administrator
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Blades is a seasoned Systems Administrator with over 20 years of hands-on experience in network, Linux and telephony systems, currently supporting IoT connectivity at Eseye. He has designed and operated resilient networks and Linux infrastructure—from BGP/OSPF routing and private interconnects in carrier environments to AWS autoscaling pipelines for call recording processing. Gareth’s background includes deep telecom stack knowledge (SIP, UK-ISUP) and practical PCI-aware Linux packaging and monitoring implementations using Nagios, Cacti and custom scripts. Comfortable across physical and virtual platforms (Xen/KVM, Hyper-V, VMware) and cloud services, he combines low-level network troubleshooting with systems automation and security-focused patch management. A Brunel-trained engineer, he brings pragmatic project delivery informed by decades of customer-facing support and on-site interventions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Brunel University London
Github Skills (12)
open-hardware8
mesh8
gps8
nrf528
rp20407
esp327
lora6
firmware6
raspberry4
kodi2
raspberry-pi2
xbmc2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RADARC/BOBInlinePowerpole
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
RADARC/Powerpole-distribution
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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