Russ Mckendrick
Practice Manager (SRE & DevOps) at Node4 Ltd
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRuss Mckendrick is a Practice Manager (SRE & DevOps) at Node4 with over two decades in IT and 12 years in senior infrastructure and solutions roles, specializing in Linux, automation, containers and cloud-native operations. He leads SRE and DevOps practice work across public and private clouds, blending hands-on system administration with strategic team leadership and client-facing support. A prolific author on Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible—seven books and multiple industry contributions—he translates complex orchestration and monitoring topics into practical, production-ready guidance. Known for preferring open source tooling and orchestration at scale, he also brings a curious, detail-oriented mindset (and an encyclopedic vinyl collection) that fuels pragmatic, long-lived infrastructure decisions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
16reputation
88reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (51)
hugo10
docker-image10
ghost10
nunjucks10
static-site10
docker9
pipeline9
azure8
vinyl8
azure-devops8
cicd8
terraform8
multilingual8
hugo-theme8
golang8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Infrastructure-as-Code-for-Beginners
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 commits, 30 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
russmckendrick/vagrant
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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