Robert Hawdon
Night Shift Principal Infrastructure Support Engineer at Myself
Great Lumley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Hawdon is a Night Shift Principal Infrastructure Support Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience managing Windows and Linux servers and maintaining resilient gaming platforms at Bede Gaming. He specializes in Azure migrations, virtual server upkeep, and night-time incident response, ensuring high-availability services and rapid troubleshooting across networks and cloud environments. A practical DevOps practitioner with a B.Sc. in Network Systems, he blends systems administration roots with platform-focused automation and testing of in-house services. Outside work he contributes to open source projects (authoring small utilities in C, PHP and Python and contributing to tools like ElastAlert and ddclient), reflecting a long-standing habit of building useful tooling and operating on-call shifts. Colleagues rely on his steady night-shift leadership and his knack for migrating legacy services into modern cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons), Network Systems, 2:1 (Second Class Honours First Division), B.Sc. (Hons), Network Systems, 2:1 (Second Class Honours First Division) at University of SunderlandFoundation degree, I.C.T. Support, Passed, Foundation degree, I.C.T. Support, Passed at Gateshead CollegeRichard Coates Middle SchoolA-Level, Media Studies, Physics, I.C.T., Mathematics, A-Level, Media Studies, Physics, I.C.T., Mathematics at Ponteland Community High School
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Github Skills (105)
cli10
file-manager10
libpurple10
pidgin10
unix9
linux9
shell9
command-line9
bsd9
zsh9
macos9
puppet8
python8
bash8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
roberthawdon/homebrew-dfshow
Jan 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
roberthawdon/toonbot
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
A plugin for Slack's python-rtmbot to send web comics via direct messages.
Contributions:21 releases, 88 PRs, 181 pushes in 2 years 8 months
web-comicspythoncomicsslackdirect
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