Robert Hawdon
DevOps Engineer at Giacom
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
13 years of employment as a software developer
Full UK Driving Licence, Full UK Driving Licence at Driving Standards AgencyRichard Coates Middle SchoolB.Sc. (Hons), Network Systems, B.Sc. (Hons), Network Systems at University of SunderlandFoundation Degree, I.C.T. Support, Foundation Degree, I.C.T. Support at Gateshead CollegeA-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 (90)
unix10
linux10
cli10
file-manager10
bsd10
macos10
libpurple10
command-line10
shell9
home-assistant9
pidgin9
git-mirror9
puppet8
reddit8
elasticsearch8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
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
roberthawdon/dotfiles
Nov 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:94 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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