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I’m Toby McLaughlin.

My day job is something like “Web Systems Engineer”.

Right now, I’m:

• Learning some of the art of electronics design, and making some observations about the process.
• Automating All The Things with Puppet
• Contemplating programming for Virtual Reality, and failing to wait patiently for my Oculus Rift.

My professional history looks like this:

2012-2013 University of Melbourne

• Roll existing Debian server fleet into Puppet configuration management
• Configure AD authentication for Linux services
• Build Nagios monitoring via Puppet
• Document and diagram legacy systems and service architecture
• Manage an HPC cluster (SLURM, MPI)

2007-2012 Nexus 6 Software

• Automate deployment in the AWS cloud with Python and Boto
• Manage production web systems including load-balancers, app servers and clustered databases
• Implement continuous integration workflow using Jenkins, Selenium and Lettuce
• Manage internal development systems running on KVM/libvirt
• Develop a RESTful (JSON) data service in Python
• Build and run Linux server systems (Redhat, Debian)
• Manage a broad suite of FLOSS services, including Apache, MySQL/Postgres, Exim, Bind etc.
• Implement custom Linux-based router/firewall/VPN systems (OpenVPN, advanced iptables)
• Service monitoring/metrics with Nagios, Zabbix

2006-2012 Fallshaw Wheels & Castors (consultant).

• Build a multi-site WAN with OpenVPN on custom Linux routers (featuring link redundancy, differentiated services routing, QoS)
• Develop a daemon in Ruby to manage WAN link fail-over
• Manage physical server acquisition, migration and decommissioning
• Administer an AIX ERP host
• Maintain in-house scripts and web apps in Python, Ruby
• Consolidate existing x86 server fleet to a virtualized architecture on KVM/libvirt
• Service monitoring/metrics with Nagios, Zabbix

2006-2009 TrikeApps

• Deploy Ruby on Rails applications to the AWS cloud and co-located KVM/libvirt systems
• Specify, configure and deploy physical servers into co-location
• Manage Ubuntu development VMs on KVM/libvirt
• Develop scripts in Ruby to generate Nagios configuration

2005-2006 TATE Consultants

• Administer RedHat development systems
• Develop a data-driven web application with Java & Jakarta Struts
• Support highly-available AIX production systems

2004 Charles Sturt University

• Workstation support for academics and administrative staff

2003-2004 Enet21 / OzHosting

• Manage a full web hosting stack including Apache, Bind etc.
• Rack-and-stack servers in a datacenter environment
• Provide 24/7 on-call support (monitoring with Nagios)

2002 Australian Television Research

• Implement a DMZ firewall architecture with iptables
• Manage RedHat, Mandrake and SCO Unix(!) systems
• Deploy web applications on Apache Tomcat

2000-2001 Defence Imagery & Geospation Organization

• Support high-performance Solaris and Linux systems
• Develop system administration tools in Perl
• Develop log analysis scripts to process syslog from 50+ Unix workstations
• Provide hardware support for Intel and SPARC systems
• Support SAN and ATM fibre networks