Ruairí Newman
Principal System Administrator, Head Of IT
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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SeniorRuairí Newman is a seasoned Systems Administrator and Site Reliability Engineer with around 30 years in the industry and 15 years of hands-on AWS experience, currently serving as Principal System Administrator and Head of IT at Waratek. He focuses on service automation and reliability, blending deep operational expertise with leadership of IT strategy and teams. Comfortable working remotely or hybrid, he prioritises efficient, auditable systems that scale and recover gracefully. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he brings veteran perspective to incident reduction and infrastructure-as-code practices. Based in Leinster, Ireland, Ruairí pairs legacy systems knowledge with modern cloud-native approaches to drive measurable uptime and developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (69)
ubuntu10
centos9
debian9
encryption9
fedora9
openvpn9
arch9
archlinux8
linux8
vpn8
bash8
amazon8
profiling7
monitoring7
mesh7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ruairinewman/move_mouse
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
ruairinewman/clickatell-cli
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 53 pushes in 6 months
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