Jonathan Perkin Email & Phone Number

Redhill, GB

pkgsrc developer

SRE for Joyent/Samsung, in addition to continuing to maintain SmartOS third-party software as detailed below.

Principle maintainer of pkgsrc.joyent.com, Joyent’s repository of open source software for the SmartOS operating system. I port software to SmartOS, produce quarterly releases of around 20,000 software packages, manage infrastructure serving millions of downloads per year, handle security issues and backports, and work on OS, compiler, and application.

Release Engineering for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

Manager for the MySQL release engineering team, comprising 8 people spread geographically between San Francisco and Bangalore. Arranged meetings, set goals, maintained release plan across multiple products, and made final technical decisions.In addition, I continued to perform all the responsibilities of a release engineer as per my previous role.

Release engineering of MySQL, MySQL Cluster, and assorted Connectors and utilities. Regular releases, custom builds, fixing packaging and build bugs, and providing consultancy on build/packaging best practise.Maintenance and development of our custom in-house continuous integration system 'PushBuild', producing thousands of builds and hundreds of gigabytes.

During the final couple of years at the BBC I had primary responsibility for the firewalls, SMTP gateways, and Internet infrastructure for 25,000 BBC staff. I led improving the email systems, reducing the amount of incoming spam by 500,000 emails per day, as well as preventing the BBC from appearing on realtime blacklists.Prior to this I was part of the.

FreeBSD and Solaris systems administration, Windows and general office support.