Matt Baker Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

* Contributor to open source project Patroni, a High Availability tool for PostgreSQL database clusters written in Python. Delivers resilience and consistency via a Distributed Configuration Store (Etcd), a management interface via a REST API and a CLI.* Designed automation for testing and packaging with GitHub actions, on EL/SLES and Debian/Ubuntu.* Authored tests and test environments for EDB HA products with Python, Pytest, Behave, Ansible and Molecule - combined with docker and image creation.* Worked extensively on the recently open sourced Trusted Postgres Architect, configuration management and deployment tool for PostgreSQL database clusters. Included writing Python code, Ansible, Terraform IaC and working with AWS and Azure cloud platforms, and docker. The tool consists of a complex integration of many EDB products and open source components such as EDB Advanced Postgres, Postgres Distributed, Patroni, Repmgr, EDB Failover Manager, Etcd, HAProxy, etc.

Bristol, United Kingdom

System Reliability Engineering - software engineering for Oracle Public Cloud.Responsible for ensuring the reliability and integrity of deliverables from SRE software engineering going out to the wider Oracle Public Cloud. Encapsulating everything in the product life cycle from developer experience on the desktop to final deployment in production environments. Advocate of Continuous Delivery striving for full end-to-end automation. In more detail:* Developer tools and automated integration into development tool services.* Development practises, principles and standardisation.* Binary artifact management and manipulation; such as packaging and repository promotion mechanisms.* Unifying testing practises and centralising quality assurance as we release and on the desktop.* Coordinating the release schedule and triaging issues that come from released products.* Design and integration for promotion of release artifacts including their validation and deployment into development environments and beyond.

Bristol, United Kingdom

* Supervise a team of systems administrators who are responsible for planning, developing, providing and coordinating University-wide IT services and infrastructure including servers, data-storage and desktop management.* Responsible for life-cycle management including identifying requirements, coordinating approaches and the planning, development and maintenance of the resulting service.* Planning, documenting and organising all aspects of provision of the Unix and Linux central server and data storage infrastructure.* Advising senior management on long term strategy and current best practices.

Working in the University's IT Services - Systems and Operations team within Infrastructure. Instigating and coordinating innovative projects, addressing long-term enterprise scale service life cycle strategies, interpreting and applying ITIL processes, aiding in staff restructuring processes.

o Research and Development department for national HE/FE eLearning services and JISC funded development projects. o Lead technical architect enterprise scale Content Management Systems such as that providing the University's primary public facing web presence, Private Cloud and Virtualisation cluster management, High-Availability clusters for application Virtual Hosting environments. o Devised and engineered an unparalleled Configuration Management and service orchestration system.

o Responsible for maintaining back office IT for a prominent Internet Service Provider, focusing on design and implementation of: o Geographically distributed Data Centre management o Network Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention o Management of peered Autonomous System and gateway routing o Large-scale user base email subscriber service designed to a high level of security (Harrods Bank) o Remote site client services (RAS, DSL, Virtual Desktop, SMTP) o Application server infrastructure design and maintenance o ISP scale DNS services. o Assigned Responsible Person on RIPE Local Internet Registry and Nominet Registrar Tag holder.

o Systems Administration key duties including: DNS server management, domain name registration, IP mass virtual hosting for in house Web design and development. o Gained skills and experience in UNIX server operation, server hardware building and installation, working with a large user base for remote access and dial-up services.

Call centre based technical support for national Internet access service providers.