Simon Flood
Linux Engineer Consultant at Securelinx
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimon Flood is a pragmatic Linux engineer consultant with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating Linux systems and HPC services in academic environments, now consulting at Securelinx from Cambridge. He is a SUSE-certified administrator and OpenStack-trained practitioner with deep familiarity across RHEL/CentOS, SLES/openSUSE and Ubuntu stacks and common services (Apache, LDAP, NTP, DHCP) and automation tools like Ansible and Salt. His career at the University of Cambridge spanned roles from systems support to senior HPC administration, giving him a rare blend of operational, teaching and community-facing experience. An active open-source contributor, he has expanded Spack’s package ecosystem by adding new scientific packages and improved Salt’s documentation, showing attention to both backend packaging and clear technical communication. He has been recognized as a vendor knowledge partner and spoken at SUSE conferences, reflecting sustained community leadership beyond day-to-day engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
package-manager-tool10
rs10
build-tools10
package-manager10
restructuredtext10
python10
documentation10
scientific-computing9
linux8
configuration-management8
infrastructure-as-code7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by adding and updating package definitions. They added new versions of existing packages like Geos and R, and also introduced entirely new packages such as ANTs, Trinity, and pplacer, indicating a focus on expanding Spack's software library. These changes involve modifying Python files to correctly integrate software into the Spack ecosystem, highlighting their involvement in backend configuration and package management.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
saltstack/salt
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the project by fixing various typos and updating documentation. These changes focused on correcting errors in release notes and the `requisites.rst` file, demonstrating attention to detail in written content. Further contributions included updating links to archived IRC logs. The user's work primarily revolves around improving the clarity and accuracy of the project's documentation.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
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