Michael Baker
Lead Engineer - Site Reliability at AC3
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Baker is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Perth with 11 years of experience evolving from security and network engineering into full-stack cloud and automation work, primarily on AWS and Ubuntu. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (notably Puppet), network appliance ecosystems (Juniper, Cisco, Riverbed, Aruba) and web security, blending deep operational practice with software-level automation. At AC3 he leads SRE efforts after a long tenure delivering infrastructure and automation at Bulletproof, and his hands-on background includes migrations, virtual infrastructure and high-availability web clusters. He contributes to the well-regarded Oxidized project, adding GPG encryption and NSX firewall support, showing an interest in secure, automated network configuration management. Michael’s toolkit spans scripting and systems languages (bash, C, PHP) and a broad set of vendor certifications, reflecting a pragmatic engineer who can both architect solutions and dive into low-level troubleshooting.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
JNCIS-SSL Juniper SSL VPN, JNCIS-SSL Juniper SSL VPN at Juniper EducationVeeam Technical Sales Professional, Backup & ReplicationICOMM, ICOMM at CiscoDiploma Electrotechnology IT, Diploma Electrotechnology IT at TAFE NSWZeus Certified Professional, Zeus Certified Professional at Zeus TechnologyHitachi Data Systems Storage Foundations, Hitachi Data Systems Storage Foundations at Hitachi Data SystemsTechincal Introduction to HP Enterprise, Techincal Introduction to HP Enterprise at HP ExpertONEACMA, ACMA at Aruba NetworksVTSP4, VTSP4 at VMware Education VTSP4Mater Dei College
Github Skills (3)
csv10
ruby10
backup9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ytti/oxidized
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on adding and improving GPG encryption support for the network configuration backup tool. They implemented GPG encryption functionality within the CSV source, including decrypting files and handling passwords. Additionally, the user addressed syntax errors and made minor updates to various configuration files, particularly concerning the CSV source module. Furthermore, the user added support for NSX Firewall and DFW configurations.
nmsoxidizedrancidbackup-toolnetwork
elmobp/puppet-oxidized
May 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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