Tim Bishop
IT Platforms Engineer (Linux)
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Bishop is an experienced Unix/Linux platforms engineer with 23 years building and maintaining robust server and network infrastructure, currently focused on IT platforms at the University of Kent. He specializes in integrating diverse technologies—Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Puppet, VMware, and high-availability storage—and often writes custom code (Perl, shell, some Java/PHP) to glue systems together. Tim has led large migrations (Solaris to Linux), runs the UK Mirror Service hosting 128 TB of mirrored software, and contributes to notable open-source projects including Puppet and Snipe-IT. Practical and detail-oriented, he combines deep operational experience with a track record of improving reliability and maintainability in production environments.
23 years of coding experience
1st class BSc with Honours, Computer Science, 1st class BSc with Honours, Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (35)
puppeteer10
corosync10
puppet10
freebsd10
laravel-mix10
pacemaker10
linux10
laravel10
user-management10
php10
asset-management10
ruby9
databases9
sql9
sql-database9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-corosync
May 2015 - May 2016
Sets up and manages Corosync.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 35 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the `voxpupuli/puppet-corosync` module. Their work includes fixing deprecation warnings, logging debug information to aid troubleshooting, and adapting the module to work with different Puppet versions and Ruby environments. They also introduced changes to manage the Pacemaker service and enabled options for two-node clusters, demonstrating a good understanding of the underlying infrastructure and Puppet module best practices.
linux-puppet-modulecorosyncpuppetcentos-puppet-moduledebian-puppet-module
snipe/snipe-it
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
A free open source IT asset/license management system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within the Snipe-IT project. They addressed issues related to currency handling, padding in the UI, and upgrading the system. Further, the user made adjustments to backend logic by allowing certain model properties to be fillable, and implemented changes regarding including audited items in a list. They also worked on the upgrade script to exclude require-dev packages.
management-systemasset-manageritamassetlicense-management
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