Peter Upfold
System Administrator
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Upfold is an experienced system administrator and developer with 14 years delivering reliable, secure infrastructures across Windows, Linux and cloud platforms including Azure, Microsoft 365 and Intune. Comfortable in both operations and development, he builds bespoke tooling in C#, PHP, Python, Bash and PowerShell to automate and solve complex problems, and has contributed security-focused improvements to the popular Phinx PHP migrations project. He has led cloud-first transformations in education and nonprofit settings—migrating legacy AD environments to Intune/Azure AD and improving backup, DR and information security posture. Equally committed to technical depth and ethical impact, he seeks to harness technology to support human rights and empower users. Based in England, he combines hands-on server administration with a full‑stack curiosity that surfaces non-obvious optimisations and long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
[not completed], Computer Science, [not completed], Computer Science at University of ReadingBTEC National Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction Distinction Distinction, BTEC National Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction Distinction Distinction at Sparsholt College Hampshire
Github Skills (10)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
db-migrate10
db-migration10
migration10
pdo10
mysql10
database9
databases9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/phinx
Apr 2013 - May 2013
PHP Database Migrations for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to database migration functionality within the Phinx project. They implemented support for MySQL SSL connections, improving the security of database interactions. The user also addressed an issue related to array merging in the MySQL adapter, fixing a potential bug. Additionally, they made changes to support more advanced PDO driver options for MySQL, further enhancing the adapter's flexibility.
database-migrationdatabase-migrationsphpmigrationsphp-database-migrations
PeterUpfold/DfontSplitter
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Convert Macintosh .dfont files into TTF format
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 10 months
ttfmacintoshinkscapewoff2
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