Summary
Jonathan Ervine is a seasoned systems and cloud engineering leader with 12+ years focused on enterprise Linux, virtualization, high availability and server migrations across APAC, particularly in government and financial sectors. Based in Hong Kong, he combines hands-on technical support and account management for major customers with a pragmatic ability to translate between software developers and end users on Red Hat and SUSE platforms. Currently Team Lead - Systems at Flow Traders, he previously led distributed systems work and played a key role in migrating GOGOX from Heroku to GKE. His background includes long-form customer-facing roles at Red Hat and Novell, giving him deep expertise in incident resolution, architecture guidance and long-term platform reliability. Colleagues rely on him for bridging operational needs and strategic platform decisions, often smoothing complex cross-team migrations. He pairs practical systems engineering with account stewardship, a combination that reduces risk for large-scale production environments.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons), BSc. (Hons) at University of Nottingham