Simon A
Staff Service Reliability Engineer at Proofpoint
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon A is a Staff Service Reliability Engineer based in Belfast with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, automating and operating high-availability Linux and Unix-derived environments. At Proofpoint he provides technical leadership, architect reviews and cross-team mentorship for a global SaaS security stack, blending operational rigor with scalable automation. His background spans operations management and systems leadership across enterprises and hosting businesses, with deep expertise in virtualization, networking and clustered LEMP/LEMP-style architectures. Comfortable across RHEL, Debian, SuSE, FreeBSD and more, he pairs legacy platform knowledge with modern SRE practices to keep mission-critical services resilient. Unusually for an SRE, he holds an MSc in Coastal and Estuarine Science, reflecting a pragmatic, research-oriented approach to complex system problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Coastal and Estuarine Science and Management, MSc, Coastal and Estuarine Science and Management at The University of HullBSc Hons, Marine Biology, BSc Hons, Marine Biology at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (73)
solaris10
freebsd10
snapshots10
linux9
tarball9
btrfs9
zfs9
filesystem9
openzfs9
replication9
security8
networking8
telemetry8
openstack8
storage8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thehaven/haven-overlay
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
thehaven/kubler
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
A container image meta builder
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
containersdocker-imagemetadockerbuilder
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