John Gardner
Manager at N-able
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Gardner is an experienced IT leader and manager with 11+ years in systems administration, networking and infrastructure, now leading operations at N-able. He has a strong track record of reducing costs and operational risk—having driven major migrations, backup consolidations and infrastructure redesigns that saved hundreds of thousands of pounds while improving reliability and PSN compliance. Comfortable translating technical detail for customers and stakeholders, he combines hands-on expertise across Linux, AWS, virtualization, databases and scripting with practical ITIL processes. John has led teams through large transformations (including high-throughput web services and clustered PostgreSQL deployments) and has repeatedly turned backlogs and incidents into stable, well-documented services. Based in Newcastle, he brings a pragmatic, analytical approach and a knack for simplifying complex systems without sacrificing availability.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
HND Electronic Engineering with Microprocessor Applications, HND Electronic Engineering with Microprocessor Applications at Sheffield Hallam UniversitySt. Thomas More School, BlaydonBEng (Hons) Electronic and Computer Engineering, BEng (Hons) Electronic and Computer Engineering at Teesside University
English
Github Skills (10)
python9
kubernetes9
modeling-tool8
vault7
aws6
owasp5
webkit1
visualization1
webview1
mastodon1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeg1972/rpi-solar-weather-station
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
The source code for my YouTube series on building a solar powered, Raspberry Pi based, weather station.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
weather-stationraspberry-piyoutube-seriessolarraspberry
mike-goodwin/aws-vault-reference-infrastructure
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
An industrial strength, best practice reference architecture showing how to prevent credential sprawl with Vault on AWS
Contributions:28 commits, 20 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 months
awsvault
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