Summary
Karl Bastiman is a Technical Consultant with over nine years of recent hands-on experience and more than two decades of contracting across UNIX-centric software development and systems administration. He specialises in UNIX administration, C development and rapid systems triage, having supported high-stakes environments from broadcast and film production to disaster recovery and financial communications. Currently helping UK film studios at UCNS, he combines scripting and bespoke tooling to keep editing and VFX pipelines running smoothly. His background includes senior DevOps roles automating delivery and resilience at Evertz and Plan B, and earlier responsibility for thousands of customer servers—experience that yields a calm, pragmatic approach to firefighting complex systems. Colleagues describe him as the sort of engineer who can fly to LA to fix a backup mid-shoot, which speaks to both his technical depth and operational reliability.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computation, Computing, Information Systems, Computation, Computing, Information Systems at The University of Manchester
BTEC Computing, programming, design, National Diploma, BTEC Computing, programming, design, National Diploma at Farnborough College of Technology
Various O levels, Various O levels at Oldmachar Academy
German