Rawiri Blundell
System Engineer at Radium
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRawiri Blundell is a seasoned System Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in Linux/UNIX operations, SRE practices and cloud migrations, currently based in Wellington, NZ. He has led complex platform upgrades and security hardening across on-prem and AWS environments—surviving a DDOS and introducing stronger identity and connectivity controls like YubiKeys and Tailscale. Comfortable across virtualization (VMware, Xen), storage (Lenovo SAN, Synology), backup and archive strategies (Veeam, S3/B2) and orchestration (Ansible, Jenkins), he bridges traditional sysadmin craft with modern automation. He’s an early adopter and internal champion of Ansible and configuration management, with a track record of reducing operational overhead through tooling, scripting and process overhaul. Notably pragmatic, he combines blue-team security improvements with customer-facing reliability work, having implemented zero-downtime upgrades and scripted onboarding/VPN solutions that cut manual effort.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Information Technology, Bachelor of IT, Information Technology at Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)
Github Skills (90)
bash-configuration10
bash10
security10
linter10
monitoring10
static-analysis10
bash-completion10
shell10
pipe10
gnome-terminal10
shellcheck10
application-monitoring10
checkmk10
color-scheme9
cli9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rawiriblundell/checkMK
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
CheckMK - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Contributions:162 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 6 months
checkmksecurityin-classinfrastructuremonitoring
rawiriblundell/sh_libpath
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:241 commits, 165 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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