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<h1 id="mat-stace">Mat Stace</h1>
<p>cv@matstace.me.uk<br />
+44 7506 002 772</p>
<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>A Web Operations / Linux Infrastructure Engineer with a keen interest
in technology, and in particular how the infrastructure / systems
department can fully integrate with the entire business to improve
communication and processes throughout the whole company.</p>
<h2 id="work-experience">Work Experience</h2>
<h3 id="ghostvfx-remote-uk"><a
href="https://www.ghostvfx.com/">GhostVFX</a>, Remote, UK</h3>
<h4
id="cloud-infrastructure-engineer-devops---march-2022-to-present">Cloud
Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) - March 2022 to Present</h4>
<p>Working remotely as part of a globally distributed team, I was
brought in to lead and architect a cloud migration, utilising Terraform
and Azure, I replicated the existing on-prem VFX studio into the cloud
to facilitate a rapid roll-out and expansion of a new office in India,
avoiding the delays associated with a physical site. I have also applied
my knowledge of monitoring and telemetry to improve and expand coverage
of systems and services monitoring, whilst also combining multiple
disparate sources to give the TechOps support team a “single pane of
glass” to view issues.</p>
<h3 id="the-orchard-london-uk"><a href="https://www.theorchard.com/">The
Orchard</a>, London, UK</h3>
<h4 id="devops-engineer---may-2019-to-march-2022">DevOps Engineer - May
2019 to March 2022</h4>
<p>Working within a globally distributed team, developing and supporting
the existing hybrid infrastructure (AWS and data centre), as well as
supporting the rest of the engineering organisation. Outside of the
reactive support tasks, there was a strong focus on expanding and
improving automation, including bringing existing infrastructure into
terraform. The role also required strong verbal and written
communication skills, to communicate with colleagues from a wide range
of technical experience and knowledge.</p>
<p>Key systems and technologies used included AWS, Jenkins, Terraform,
Docker, Chef, as well as various scripting languages including python
and bash.</p>
<h3 id="sportpursuit-london-uk"><a
href="https://www.sportpursuit.com/">SportPursuit</a>, London, UK</h3>
<h4 id="devops-engineer---january-2016-to-april-2019">DevOps Engineer -
January 2016 to April 2019</h4>
<p>Support and improve the existing web application infrastructure,
remove single points of failure, improve processes, work with the
development teams and product owners, improve and maintain deployment
process, responsible for monitoring and maintaining system performance.
This was a primarily AWS focussed role, with a wide variety of AWS
services in use, additional technologies included Ansible, Terraform,
Jenkins, MySQL, PostgreSQL.</p>
<h3 id="method-studios-london-uk"><a
href="https://www.methodstudios.com/">Method Studios</a>, London,
UK</h3>
<h4 id="senior-systems-engineer---june-2014-to-december-2015">Senior
Systems Engineer - June 2014 to December 2015</h4>
<p>Initially employed as a member of a newly formed global systems
engineering team, with a focus on unifying and improving the in-house
infrastructure across geographically diverse facilities, including
upgrading the workstation/render farm operating system. After a
reorganisation, the global systems team were incorporated into the local
teams, where my tasks and responsibilities have included continuing to
maintain and improve the configuration management system, as well as
storage and backup systems.</p>
<p>Day to day technologies used and supported include Ubuntu and CentOS
based systems, Puppet and Foreman, Ansible, Docker, GPFS, TSM, Cisco and
Arista networking, and Zabbix.</p>
<h3 id="digital-london-uk"><a
href="https://www.7digital.com/">7digital</a>, London, UK</h3>
<h4 id="web-operations-engineer---june-2011-to-june-2014">Web Operations
Engineer - June 2011 to June 2014</h4>
<p>Part of a team of web operations engineers working in an agile/devops
environment, who are responsible for running the infrastructure which
powers the company’s web applications stacks, including traditional
websites, APIs, and streaming media delivery, across a heterogeneous
environment of physical and virtual linux and windows servers, using
both KVM and VMWare ESXi for virtualisation.</p>
<p>My projects included leading the successful build and roll out of a
new logging platform, based around the ELK stack (Elasticsearch,
Logstash, Kibana), and working as part of a team to bring a test-driven
approach to the deployment and configuration of various infrastructure
components, using Jenkins, Vagrant, bats, and Serverspec.</p>
<p>Technologies supported include Windows servers running IIS, Nginx,
and MSSQL, and both Debian and Red Hat based linux servers running a
wide range of services and daemons, including Apache, Nginx, HAProxy,
Varnish, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Bacula,
PowerDNS, Exim, Postfix, Sendmail, Zabbix, Statsd, Graphite, ProFTPd,
and KVM and VMWare ESXi for virtualisation. We use CFEngine, and have
also evaluated Chef and Puppet.</p>
<h3 id="research-now-london-uk"><a
href="https://www.researchnow.com/">Research Now</a>, London, UK</h3>
<h4
id="unix-administrator-and-postmaster---november-2010-to-june-2011">Unix
Administrator and Postmaster - November 2010 to June 2011</h4>
<p>While at Research Now, my time was spent building, deploying, and
maintaining a new email infrastructure, for a system which sent between
four and five million emails per day. This was achieved using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, and PowerMTA for the outbound emails, and exim/ClamAV
for the incoming email servers.</p>
<h3 id="distilled-london-uk"><a
href="https://www.distilled.net/">Distilled</a>, London, UK</h3>
<h4 id="system-administrator---january-2010-to-november-2010">System
Administrator - January 2010 to November 2010</h4>
<h4 id="developer---october-2008-to-november-2010">Developer - October
2008 to November 2010</h4>
<p>I originally joined Distilled as a LAMP web application developer,
but when the system administrator left, I took on this role in addition
to my web development work. As the sole system administrator for a small
agency, this work covered everything from commissioning and maintaining
servers, through office intranets and phone systems, to desktop support
for a heterogeneous Windows, Linux, and Mac environment. The servers
were a mix of Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS, and the technology stack
included (but was not limited to) Apache, Varnish, NGinx, MySQL</p>
<h3 id="colewood-internet-essex-uk"><a
href="https://www.colewood.net/">Colewood Internet</a>, Essex, UK</h3>
<h4 id="developer---march-2004-to-september-2008">Developer - March 2004
to September 2008</h4>
<p>Although my role at Colewood was that of web application developer
(using the LAMP stack), Colewood was a company of three people, and as
“the techie one”, I also dealt with the servers (although we used a
semi-managed hosting solution, so there was a lot of hand holding from
the hosting companies we used). In addition to the LAMP development and
dealing with servers, I also designed and built a VoIP system based on
Asterisk, with the dual objectives of reducing the operating expenditure
with BT, and also allowing the creation of a virtual office, to begin
the transition to remote working.</p>
<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<h3 id="university-of-portsmouth"><a
href="https://www.port.ac.uk/">University of Portsmouth</a></h3>
<h4 id="bsc-hons-internet-technology---2000-to-2003">2:1 BSc (Hons)
Internet Technology - 2000 to 2003</h4>
<h3
id="queen-elizabeth-i-sixth-form-college-darlington---1995-to-1997">Queen
Elizabeth I Sixth Form College, Darlington - 1995 to 1997</h3>
<h4 id="a-levels">A-Levels</h4>
<p>Information Technology, Matematics, Physics</p>
<h3
id="king-james-i-comprehensive-school-bishop-auckland---1990-to-1995">King
James I Comprehensive School, Bishop Auckland - 1990 to 1995</h3>
<h4 id="gcses">GCSEs</h4>
<p>Ten GCSEs including Maths, Science and English.</p>
<h2 id="hobbies-and-other-interests">Hobbies and Other Interests</h2>
<p>Outside of work I hold a full amateur radio licence with a particular
interest in satellites and digital modes, and am an occasional bicycle
tourist. I also have an interest in sim-racing, and have altogether too
many arduinos, raspberry pis, etc. sitting in my solutions drawer,
waiting for me to find their problem.</p>
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