Sam Pearson
Site Reliability Engineer at mySociety
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSam Pearson is a Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years' experience building and supporting Linux-centric systems for everything from small community IT facilities to high-traffic, business-critical services. Based in the Greater Bristol Area, he blends hands-on systems engineering and data-centre deployments with a pragmatic focus on streamlining operations, improving deployments, and shifting teams from firefighting to strategic delivery. At mySociety since 2016 he has worked closely with infrastructure teams to integrate complex networking and storage while championing closer collaboration between developers, operators and designers. Passionate about Linux and continuous improvement, he excels at choosing the right technologies and establishing processes that let specialists spend time on innovation rather than incident response. The self-described "perpetual neophyte" brings curiosity to mature systems engineering, comfortable in mixed environments and adept at translating operational realities into reliable, maintainable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (98)
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linux-shell10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/docker-consul
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Prodcution-ready Docker deployments for CONSUL
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
consuldocker-readydockerdeployments
mysociety/ssl-scripts
Feb 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 71 pushes, 15 branches in 7 years 9 months
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