Paul Bramhall
System Engineer at Auto Trader UK
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Bramhall is a seasoned System Engineer with 15 years' experience specializing in Linux systems, automation, and operations, currently supporting critical platforms at Auto Trader UK. He has deep hands-on experience across multiple Linux distributions (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL), virtualised and cloud environments (ESXi, Proxmox, AWS) and Windows Server, and holds an RHCSA certification. Paul has driven measurable operational improvements—building deployment and tooling that cut deployment times by over 70% for the SingleView platform—while retaining on-call responsibilities and close collaboration with development teams. His background spans monitoring, capacity and performance work (Graphite/Grafana, SolarWinds), enterprise storage and networking, and database platforms, reflecting a full-stack operations mindset. Comfortable in fast-paced, evolving environments, he combines pragmatic scripting/programming skills with infrastructure design and automation. An early tinkerer who built digital signage and in-house diagnostic systems, he brings a practical, improvement-focused approach to production reliability.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Games and Programming Skills, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Games and Programming Skills at Liverpool John Moores UniversityGNVQ Advanced Information Technology, GNVQ Advanced Information Technology at Mid Cheshire College
Github Skills (99)
python10
firewall10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
wake-on-lan10
pfsense10
orchestration10
netfilter10
movie10
data-engineering10
netmiko10
scheduler10
elt10
cisco10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PaulW/airflow
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Apache Airflow
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
apacheairflowapache-airflow
PaulW/rp2040-keyboard-converter
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
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