Skills
Operating Systems & Environments
- Linux across long-lived production estates (RHEL, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu)
- Legacy UNIX platforms including Solaris, AIX, and HPUX
- Comfortable working in mixed and transitional environments rather than “clean slate” builds
Scripting & Languages
- Shell scripting (bash, ksh, awk, sed)
- Perl for system tooling and legacy platforms
- Python for automation and integration
- SQL across MySQL and PostgreSQL-backed systems
Applied AI & LLM Engineering
- LLM-assisted Python/Django development, debugging, review, test design, and documentation
- Agentic coding workflows guided by repository instructions, functional specifications, backlog/state documents, automated tests, and manual end-to-end verification
- RAG patterns including chunking, embeddings, retrieval, grounding, and reranking, with private/local experimentation
- Structured prompting, REST/API tool integration, and bounded agent permissions
- Prompt-injection awareness, privacy boundaries, and human-in-the-loop validation
- Git-based workflows
- Configuration management with Puppet
- Containerised workflows (Docker / Podman)
- CI and operational automation with Jenkins
- Virtualised infrastructure (VMware)
How I Work
- Comfortable taking responsibility for unfamiliar systems
- Used to making progress with incomplete documentation or training
- Prefer investigation and understanding over premature replacement
- Escalate issues when needed, not by default
Professional Background
- AWS Developer Associate
- Docker Associate
- Jenkins Engineer
- Puppet System Administration
- Splunk User