James Carthew
Lifecycle Engineer at Peak Insight
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Carthew is a lifecycle engineer and seasoned network/UC specialist with nearly two decades of Linux/Unix experience and nine years in hands-on professional roles delivering voice, collaboration and infrastructure projects across Australia. He has deep expertise in Cisco Unified Communications (Call Manager, Unity Connection, CUBE, Jabber, Expressway, UCS) as well as Asterisk, SIP/VoIP, Microsoft Teams, Genesys and 3CX, and has led large-scale store and enterprise rollouts including a 250-store Call Manager upgrade program. Comfortable across Linux desktop, Windows Server, VMware ESXi and LDAP/Samba administration, he combines project scoping, pre-sales engineering and implementation with on-the-ground systems administration. Known for meticulous BAU processes, he has personally organised bulk administration imports and field migrations at scale, demonstrating both executional rigour and practical troubleshooting. Based in Melbourne, he pairs formal TAFE training in network management/security with a pragmatic, operations-first mindset that keeps multi-vendor UC estates reliable and auditable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV Network Management, Network Administration, Network Security, Certificate IV Network Management, Network Administration, Network Security at TAFE SA
Github Skills (154)
apple210
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libpurple10
userspace10
pidgin10
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gnu10
gltf9
ifc9
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appkit9
vega9
python9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DMJC/Linwarrior3D
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Linwarrior - Linux Mechwarrior Clone.
Contributions:34 commits, 9 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 day
linux
DMJC/infinity-plugin
Dec 2023 - Feb 2026
music visualization plugin
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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