Ken Barr
Retired at Solace Systems
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKen Barr is a seasoned integration architect and retired technology leader with over three decades of networking, QA, and cloud architecture experience, currently focusing on hybrid- and multi-cloud solutions at Solace. He helped define cross-business-unit test automation and high-availability strategies—work rooted in earlier technical leadership at Cisco (multicast, IOS-XR, IPv6) and DND backbone operations supporting 10K users. Ken blends deep TCP/IP and systems QA expertise with practical cloud-native skills (Kubernetes, public cloud) to deliver event-driven, operationally sustainable architectures, including contributions to deploying Solace VMRs on Azure. Known for turning rigorous lab-proven designs into production-ready, supportable solutions, he brings a practitioner’s eye for both reliability and operational maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
St. Lawrence CollegeBCS, Hardware, BCS, Hardware at Carleton University
English
Github Skills (21)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
sh10
azure10
shell10
high-availability9
bicep9
arm-templates9
system-administration8
cpp-templates8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ken's contributions focus on configuring and deploying a Solace VMR (Virtual Message Router) within an Azure environment. They've implemented and modified deployment scripts, specifically `deploy_vmr.sh`, to handle tasks like downloading Solace images, setting up Docker volumes, and configuring the VMR for HA (High Availability) clusters. The user has also created and updated scripts related to SEMP (Solace Element Management Protocol) queries, ensuring the VMR's functionality and redundancy are properly managed.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
SolaceLabs/solace-iot-reference-architecture
Aug 2016 - Jan 2020
Set up a demo IoT reference architecture in AWS for QoS0 and QoS1 messaging to core applications and QoS0 messaging to edge applications.
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 5 months
aws-iotmqttopc-uaedgeset-up
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