Graham Perrin
IT Support Technician at University of Brighton
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGraham Perrin is an experienced IT Support Technician based in England with over 11 years supporting university IT services and a broader career that spans project/media development and long-term academic collaborations. At the University of Brighton he progressed into senior service delivery before returning to hands-on technical support, demonstrating strong operational stewardship in higher education environments. He is also an active open-source contributor and FreeBSD committer with documentation and source commits, and brings affinities for KDE Plasma and Mozilla projects that reflect a deep interest in desktop and open-source ecosystems. Comfortable bridging user-facing support and technical contribution, he blends practical troubleshooting with community-oriented development. An unusual strength is his decades-spanning perspective on technology and institutions, which helps him navigate both legacy systems and modern open-source tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Appleton SchoolTime-filling, hippy-gathering and yoghurt-watching., Time-filling, hippy-gathering and yoghurt-watching. at Southend-on-Sea College of TechnologyChemistry (with a view to dentistry), French and Spanish, Chemistry (with a view to dentistry), French and Spanish at Seevic CollegeThe Robert Drake Primary School
French
Stackoverflow
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560kreached
25answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
ubuntu10
chat10
visual-studio10
homeserver10
webextension10
recaptcha10
thunderbird10
client-library10
unix10
matrix10
qtquick10
browser10
firefox10
html10
eol10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
grahamperrin/freebsd-ports
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
FreeBSD ports tree (read-only mirror)
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 224 pushes in 3 years 4 months
portsbsdfreebsdread-onlyfreebsd-ports
grahamperrin/freebsd-doc
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
FreeBSD doc tree (read-only mirror)
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 1108 pushes in 3 years 3 months
freebsdread-onlynetbsd
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