Stephen Hocking
Unix Linux System Administrator
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hocking is a seasoned Unix/Linux system administrator based in Canberra with over two decades of hands-on experience across Linux, AIX, FreeBSD and legacy Unix platforms. He has managed large VM and LPAR fleets for federal clients and commercial organisations, with deep expertise in systems programming, application ports and HPC cluster administration. Stephen’s background spans public sector security-conscious environments and private-sector engineering roles, where he’s been responsible for patching, compiling scientific code and virtualisation on Power systems. Comfortable with both bare metal and VMware, he brings institutional knowledge of long-lived Unix ecosystems dating back to SunOS, IRIX and SVR4. Notably, his career shows a continuity of practical problem solving—from porting software on Transputers early on to wrangling modern AIX virtualization—making him a reliable operator for complex, heterogeneous infrastructures.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PG Dip.Inf.Tech., Computer Science, PG Dip.Inf.Tech., Computer Science at The University of QueenslandB.App.Sci, Computer Science, B.App.Sci, Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (24)
decode9
signal-processing9
rtl-sdr9
ais8
morse-code8
dac8
mls8
prediction-model8
propagation8
software-defined-radio8
receiver7
gnuradio7
ads6
ism5
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stephen-hocking/ads-b-logger
Oct 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 6 months
adspostgispostgresqlplusplots
stephen-hocking/Michigan-Terminal-System-Dockerfile
Aug 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 5 years 8 months
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