Jotham Read
Unix System Administrator
Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorJotham Read is a seasoned Unix-focused systems engineer and self-employed programmer with nearly two decades of commercial experience building web, video and cloud software for New Zealand brands. He specializes in cost-conscious cloud application design and API development, shaped by working in a region with high infrastructure costs that demanded creative resource optimisation. His strengths include high-performance video rendering pipelines from dynamic social inputs, multi-platform encoding/distribution, and event-driven architectures using POE, Node.js and Twisted. With 17+ years in networking and long experience with messaging and RPC systems (ZMQ, AWS SQS, Gearman), he builds resilient, production-grade server and client software. A long-time advocate of Unix philosophy and information security, he combines hands-on engineering with practical project and risk management as a current Unix System Administrator. He also has proven leadership as a CTO and team lead, delivering IoT/display systems and guiding multidisciplinary teams toward reliable, secure solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
1,122reputation
130kreached
32answers
17questions
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
utilities10
lodash10
cli8
tmux8
bash8
unix8
fzf7
neovim7
vim7
html6
timestamp6
zsh6
fuzzy-finder6
flash6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jotham/silverstripe-dataobject-preview
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cmsphpsilverstripesilverstripe-3dataobject
jotham/sopel-better-magic8ball
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
Better Magic 8-ball script for Sopel IRC bot.
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
irc-bot8-ballmagicbotball
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