Highly experienced technical engineer used to working in environments ranging from large scale public end user call centers to start up technology houses through to large scale private enterprise support and data center design and deployment.Detailed knowledge of a wide variety of systems and technologies from both a hardware and software perspective, including Linux, UNIX, Windows, Mac OS, VMWare and other virtualization, server hardware, Cisco, Arista and various other network vendors.Extensive exposure to world wide trends/technologies having worked globally through Americas, Asia and Europe with heavy focus on performance tuning exchange connectivity to all major markets and trading venues, provision of HPC technologies and methodologies as well as performance WAN tuning, architecture design and implementation.Key leader in rapid and challenging Agile and DevOps environments; targeted at improving process, effectiveness and performance of production, continuous development and test systems as well as release, configuration and mass deployment management.In addition to maintaining personal knowledge, disseminating knowledge and mentoring colleagues at all business levels, from Board Level to new Junior staff with relation to all aspects of technologies and systems is a deeply embedded skill.Always willing to take on new challenges and continue broadening knowledge on a regular basis to ensure skills are maintained, improved and grown at a rapid pace.Specialties: Linux/UNIX, LAN/WAN Networking, Data Center, HFT Systems Engineering, Ultra-low latency, Infrastructure Management, Architecture, Design and Support, Operating System and Hardware Tuning, Performance Enhancements, SDLC, DevOps, Release Management, Large Scale Systems Deployment, Configuration Management (Puppet/Chef/Saltstack), Azure, AWS, Scripting(Shell,Python,Ruby)