Richard Guest
Platforms And Infrastructure Manager
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Guest is a platforms and infrastructure leader with 16 years’ experience building and operating resilient, secure digital services for research organisations in New Zealand. Currently managing GNS Science’s platform and infrastructure, he combines hands-on Linux and Red Hat administration with cloud (AWS), Puppet Enterprise and Docker expertise to deliver high-uptime, distributed web systems. He has led cross-team DevOps adoption, selected and deployed CDN and web-accelerator solutions, and overseen network, security and cloud operations that support critical seismology research. Known for practical engineering judgment, he mentors technical teams through hiring and induction and maintains his edge by regularly attending conferences and formal training. A pragmatic problem-solver with roots in embedded and remote-network integrations, he brings rare operational depth across on-prem and cloud hybrid environments.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours, Computer Systems Engineering, 2/1, Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours, Computer Systems Engineering, 2/1 at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (59)
meta10
sensor10
logentries9
fastly9
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api-client8
traits8
wps7
collectd7
keyboard7
mouse7
geofence7
buffer7
android-application6
pagerduty6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GeoNet/githubSQSreceiver
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
Github to SNS to SQS to r10k for puppet deployment
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
r10kpuppetdeploymentsnssqs
quiffman/vim-pathogen
Feb 2013 - Jul 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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