Robert Fisher
Technical Writer at Sysdef
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRobert Fisher is an experienced technical writer and seasoned Unix/SRE practitioner with over two decades of hands-on experience running critical systems in production since the mid-1990s. He bridges deep legacy Solaris and modern cloud practices, having moved teams from Solaris and on-prem platforms to AWS, automation and devops toolchains while keeping operations robust and auditable. As founder of Sysdef and a Wavefront technical writer/presenter, he blends open-source development, consulting and clear technical communication to help teams avoid reinventing poor solutions. Pragmatic, meticulous and adaptable, he prefers automation and doing things properly, and has a track record of delivering cost-saving infrastructure changes and building the boring but essential tooling teams rely on.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (63)
json10
monitoring10
mqtt10
telegraf10
wavefront10
kafka10
time-series10
grafana10
agent10
prometheus10
golang10
xpath10
influxdb10
modbus10
image9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
snltd/aur-rs
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
An extremely opinionated way to manage audio files
Contributions:119 PRs, 128 pushes, 134 branches in 1 year 8 months
snltd/sysdef.xyz
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 111 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 9 months
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