Michael Collins
System Administrator
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Collins is a systems administrator and DevOps engineer with eight years’ experience designing and operating large-scale Linux and Ceph-based storage infrastructures in research and production environments. At Pawsey he led a 20PB Ceph deployment, authored an Ansible-first automation framework that replaced Puppet, and delivered multi‑fold performance gains through targeted optimizations and a new load‑balancer architecture. He also builds and runs community Matrix services (Perthchat.org), maintaining federation, app builds and backup/monitoring pipelines, and has contributed integrations to the popular matrix-docker-ansible-deploy project. Michael combines hands-on systems engineering (Proxmox, RKE2, MooseFS, Docker) with infrastructure-as-code practices and a strong open-source ethos, having turned complex cluster lifecycles into single-playbook operations. Based in Perth, he’s as comfortable troubleshooting ticket queues as he is architecting highly available platforms that cut cloud costs and scale to petabytes.
8 years of coding experience
Computer Systems and Networking, Information Technology, Computer Systems and Networking, Information Technology at Curtin University
English
Github Skills (13)
matrix-org10
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
automations10
automation10
dockers10
ansible-role10
ansible10
discord-js9
discord9
systemd8
json8
yaml8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 24 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the Ansible-based deployment configuration, focusing on integrations with external services like Discord and GoogleChat. Their work involved modifying configuration files, including those for bridges and app services, and adapting systemd service definitions. The commits show modifications to survey files related to the setup and configuration of various services and components within the deployment framework. The user demonstrates the ability to deploy and configure application services and integrations.
securejitsiself-hostingansiblecommunication
PC-Admin/PC-Admins-Synapse-Setup-Guide-2
May 2020 - Jun 2020
A complete guide on how to setup Matrix's Synapse software on Debian 10 with your existing website.
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes in 27 days
debianmatrixsynapse
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