Richard Forth
Senior System Administrator
Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Forth is a Senior System Administrator with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, operating and troubleshooting Linux-based infrastructure for universities, managed service providers and enterprise customers. Currently at CoSector - University of London, he brings deep expertise in Red Hat, Ubuntu and CentOS environments, LAMP stacks, root-cause analysis and mentoring frontline engineers. His background includes long-tenured roles at Rackspace where he progressed from administrator to senior escalation engineer, and at ANS Group as an Enterprise Linux Engineer, demonstrating consistent technical growth and customer-facing reliability. Comfortable across hybrid and cloud-managed environments, he pairs practical system administration skills with a track record of improving team capabilities and managing complex operational incidents.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
GNVQ, Health and Social Care, GNVQ, Health and Social Care at Stamford College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
htaccess10
apache10
httpd10
scanner9
vagrantfile9
virtualbox9
puppet8
vms8
command-line-utility8
wordpress8
pythonic8
configurations8
fpm7
youtube7
security7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
richardforth/wp_version_scanner
Jan 2017 - Oct 2022
Wordpress Version Scanner
Contributions:158 commits, 107 PRs, 117 pushes in 5 years 10 months
scannerwordpressphpsecurityxml-rpc
richardforth/apache2buddy
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
apache2buddy
Contributions:579 commits, 415 PRs, 621 pushes in 6 years 8 months
troubleshootingreportingapacheapache2httpd
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