Robert Gornall
Senior System Administrator
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Gornall is a Senior System Administrator with 15 years’ experience designing and operating large-scale, hybrid cloud infrastructures across media and creative industries from London. He has led global systems and network teams, driving automation and DevOps practices using Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Puppet and Foreman while operating VMware/Nutanix datacentres and AWS estates. Robert pairs hands-on Linux and networking expertise with mentoring and process change, repeatedly reducing friction for development teams and enabling rapid cloud delivery. As an active open-source contributor he has strengthened production monitoring and reliability (notably contributing backend and DevOps fixes to the popular LibreNMS project), and earlier led an open-source plugin that exceeded 100,000 active servers. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, operational resiliency, and quietly improving long-running systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Network Computing Network Design Network Administration Cisco CCNA Java Program OOP, BSc Network Computing Network Design Network Administration Cisco CCNA Java Program OOP at University of SunderlandICT Mathematics Physics, ICT Mathematics Physics at St. Bede's Sixth Form College
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Github Skills (12)
monitoring10
rrdtool10
php10
network-monitoring10
laravel-mix9
sql9
laravel9
snmpd8
snmp8
devops8
system-design7
bash6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 32 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and operational aspects of the network monitoring system. Their work included modifying PHP code to address SQL query vulnerabilities, implementing a utility to check RRD files for corruption, and refactoring code for better maintainability. Furthermore, the user enhanced the alert system and incorporated support for more link speed types to improve data accuracy, demonstrating an understanding of the system's core components and operational needs.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
khobbits/Lottery
Jul 2011 - Jun 2014
Contributions:57 commits in 2 years 11 months
downloaderpythonlink
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