Stuart Sears
Software Engineer at BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT LP
Waverley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorStuart Sears is a seasoned Linux Platform Engineer with over 15 years’ experience designing, deploying and securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, and was the first Red Hat Certified Architect in the UK. He blends deep systems administration skills—DNS, Apache/Squid, LDAP/Kerberos/Samba, SELinux—with automation and orchestration expertise in Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Foreman/Cobbler and Satellite. Known for building core OS builds and centralised management platforms, he also scripts in Bash and Python to glue complex infrastructure together. A former trainer and examiner for early RHCAs, he brings both hands-on operational know-how and an ability to upskill teams. Outside of work he’s an inveterate Python tinkerer and ukulele/guitar player, a detail that reflects his patient, iterative approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
English, German, French
Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
ansible10
chef-infra10
devops10
python-markdown9
cobbler9
napalm9
satellite9
dhcp8
tftp8
python8
music8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lanky/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
lanky/ukedown
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
Markdown extenstions for ukulele songsheets
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 5 months
musicextenstionsmarkdownukulele
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