Ian Chilton
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking at Fastly
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Chilton is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in networking with 15 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, secure infrastructure across hosting and edge platforms. He brings deep Ruby/Rails roots and sysadmin instincts to DevOps challenges, having progressed from back-end development to platform leadership roles at Bytemark, LONAP and now Fastly. Ian focuses on performance, scalability and deployment automation, and has contributed practical DevOps improvements to popular tooling like the veewee Vagrant box templates. Based in England, he pairs hands-on troubleshooting with configuration management discipline, plus a curious blend of interests in electronics and Formula 1 that inform a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computing for Industry with First Class Honours, Computing, Computing for Industry with First Class Honours, Computing at Northumbria University
Github Skills (13)
system10
automation10
bash10
configurations10
script10
automations10
system-configuration10
build-automation10
debian10
operating-system10
ubuntu10
linux9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/veewee
May 2011 - Feb 2012
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on modifying and updating post-installation scripts and configuration files for various Ubuntu and Debian versions within the context of building Vagrant boxes. They implemented changes to install necessary packages, configure sudo, and add functionality like the creation of a build timestamp file. Furthermore, they were responsible for synchronizing and streamlining post-installation steps across several template variations.
vagrant
ichilton/nanode
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:113 commits in 1 month
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