Jon Fautley
Systems And Cloud Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJon Fautley is a Systems and Cloud Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience specialising in Linux, Red Hat, systems architecture and low-latency infrastructure for financial services and the public sector. Based in London, he currently supports quantitative trading infrastructure at Qube Research & Technologies and has a track record modernising deployments for banks and trading firms including Credit Suisse, Barclays and RBS. He blends systems administration, automation and performance tuning—having driven latency-optimised Linux builds, Puppet/Foreman deployments and FPGA feed handler rollouts—to meet demanding SLAs. An active open-source contributor, he has improved rclone’s SFTP backend by hardening cipher options and boosting performance through reduced config lookups. Comfortable briefing CEOs as well as mentoring engineers, he pairs a consultant’s client-focus with a practitioner’s knack for solving thorny production problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-conscious solutions that scale under pressure.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
golang10
develop10
rclone10
go10
backend10
sftp10
synchronize9
synchronization9
data-synchronization9
ftp9
synchronized9
data-sync9
cloud-storage8
encryption8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rclone/rclone
Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) functionality within the rclone project. Their work included adding configuration options for the `aes128-cbc` cipher and disabling EPSV mode in FTP, enhancing security and control. The user also focused on performance improvements within the SFTP backend by minimizing configuration file lookups. Furthermore, they addressed file hash checking and modtime behavior in the SFTP backend.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
jfautley/ldapauthenticator
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
LDAP Authenticator Plugin for Jupyter
Contributions:101 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
authenticatorjupyterjupyterlabldap
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