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Mike Ashton is listed as Commercially Oriented Servant Engineering Leadership based in Hackney, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Mike Ashton.
Mike Ashton previously worked as Director of Platform Engineering at Velo Payments and DevOps Engineer at Kcg Holdings, Inc.. Mike Ashton holds Computer Science from University Of Warwick.
With a wealth of experience building and maintaining secure, scalable, reliable, high performing and resilient infrastructures and software solutions with critical and intensive loads, these days I'm focussedon building and managing international teams. Although I have many of my own "greatest hits", I am now focussed on nurturing and enabling those that rely on me to achieve their own greatest moments. (Whichis roundabout way of saying that I'm hands-off, but very much know what I'm talking about).I am supremely skilled in getting the most out of people and technologies using innovation and understanding over expenditure, and thrive when presented with a challenging set of technical andfinancial constraints. I have an extremely deep understanding of technology (as in, my explanation of "how does a web browser get a page?" can go down to where the electrons are going in the MMU, ifyou're a sucker for absolute tedium), and have outlying skills at manipulating complex models of technological solutions in my mind, and thus reasoning about solutions, attack threats, scalability and so onin a rapid and intuitive manner. That's not a substitute for meaningful analysis, of course, but can short cut a lot of process and save a lot of time if used correctly. So long as you know what you want to achieve, even if that seems impossible, then I am the leader of the team that will get it done.As an affable and collaborative person, I actively protect myself from toxic work environments; so it's crucial to me that openness about issues and a culture of supporting each other to foster improvements is prevalent (or you would at least like it be), so if you're looking for someone to build, build out or troubleshoot your technical or departmental problems, and help reinforce, support and improve your existing positive culture, then I can help in all regards.
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London
Velo Payments was the global smart data network for business disbursements.Managing SRE and Platform Support, I had an international team of DevOps Engineers/Site Reliability Engineers and Platform Support engineers reporting into managers, or directly to me.I founded the “DevOps” department, latterly Platform Engineering, and built the team from scratch.
London, United Kingdom
To build up some experience in the high frequency trading area, I decided to get my hands dirty in this role, providing operational support for the QST/HFT side of the business, dealing with highly customised/overclocked servers and bleeding edge high frequency trading technology (hardware, networking, microwave networks, etc.), highly optimised software.
London, United Kingdom
Responsible for all systems, security, networking, IT procurement, and support both in production and in 6 offices/2 production centres distributed between in the US and the UK and a member of the company's leadership team, I helped build MOO from a handful of people and a handful of sales to a 400 person business with substantial (9-figure) income and a.
London, United Kingdom
Providing services for a 500 person department engaged in a £150M product development activity, utilising 130 virtualised server environments on a dozen or so boxes by squeezing the very best from several off the shelf virtualisation technologies and a swathe of heavily customised and bespoke supporting tech, I was also responsible for providing all.
London, United Kingdom
This was a contract position to aid Bulldog with its sudden growth,following its purchase and subsequent investment by Cable and Wireless.The role included day to day administration of FreeBSD and Solaris boxes,the building of replacement and additional servers and managing transfer of24/7 production services, plus some systems programming in perl, awk.
London, United Kingdom
As lead developer my responsibilities were to delegate work to the SriLankan team and handle the complex areas of maintenance, architecture andthe more challenging new development. During this time, I handled variousdiverse clients, dealing with both bespoke and off-the-shelf productdevelopment, with a heavy perl bias and some php, with a refresher in.
London, United Kingdom
During the first four months of the contract, I was a software engineer forthe group. My main achievement was to revamp the CV search engine for theonline division’s websites with a view to a performance increase. Theexisting system was taking some three minutes to search the database forcomplex criteria. I wrote a complete free-text searching engine.
London
My duties at Corpex were to manage the technical department, manage anetwork of internal and customer servers, project manage the development of the newCorpex “anti-spam” product, oversee re-engineering of their anti-virusproduct, liaise with Corpex Germany and handle customer services at a high-end technical level. During this time, I managed the.
London, United Kingdom
Brought in to help remove some... uninvited guests... I oversaw the migration from an out of date red hat installation Debian on the company's servers and generally provided love and support for the management and development teams.
London, United Kingdom
I founded Parasol Solutions Ltd, a software house and IT consultancy. In addition to the management of the company, recruitment marketing and so on, I also served as company’s systems architect and administrator, designing and implementing the company’s networkinfrastructure to provide extranet coordination of staff activities,systems to remotely access.
London, United Kingdom
Seconded to assist withthe migration of users from LDAP to Sybase, which involved integrating withthe java servlet based front end and the java based middleware. Wrote theconversion software using perl and the unix toolkit on Solaris, workingwith a large international team Worked closely with Sybase, providinginformation theory and security advice. Worked.
London, United Kingdom
Designer and author of 2webpages' online business directory search engineback end. Design of library interface, then a custom client-server protocolwith a search engine server. Main server utilised custom indexingtechniques for extreme speed of request servicing whilst implementingdenial of service protection, redundancy, fault tolerance and.
London, United Kingdom
Development on the *unlimited.co.uk sites' production system, involvingextensive perl development, oracle DBI usage, design and implementation ofpersonalised web presentation system, using multithreaded C, Solaris doors,Berkley DB and Apache module technologies. Cleanup and processing of datafor the Guardian Century project.
Derby, United Kingdom
Development of Korn shell scripts, C and Pro/C applications from detailedspecification, on a large scale development project for Post OfficeCounters Ltd. involving Oracle, HPUX, Visual Basic, Business Objects,PL/SQL, Oracle ProC, Constellar Hub and Designer 2000. Complete andrigorous testing of components written to fluid designs, under tight.
Reading, United Kingdom
Translation and adaptation of client data for loading via SQL. Exposure to"big data", corporate datasets and procedures, and massively parallel databaseimplementations. Highly performance oriented C development for processingvery large scale data sets. Automation and tolerant control systemsimplementation in perl and C. Telco data exposure. Programming to.
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Aiding addition of SGML based content into object oriented database bymeans of manipulation of SGML files, by DTD, script automation of mirroringand processing, by bespoke perl and korn shell script development. Roleinvolved bespoke development, input into design decisions, test planauthoring, specification authoring, peer reviews of code and.
Oxford, United Kingdom
Work involved administration of all machines including mail, news, dns andwww. Jointly responsible for creation and administration of the United News& Media Intranet infrastructure and services. Designed -and implemented ascalable, fault tolerant mail system to meet the group's needs and workedon cgi scripts for many sites. Worked directly with graphics.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Initially, all aspects of systems administration of SunOS and AIX network(including mail, news, dns). Later, work involved assisting the company inporting its systems firstly from AIX to Solaris, and then from SunOS toSolaris, and finally the introduction of Linux to the organisation.Towards the end of the contract, development of a.
Coventry, United Kingdom
Responsible for all aspects of running a computer consultancy business,including Unix systems administration of the company systems.Business was founded to enter the Unix bespoke software engineering market,but refocused into sales of preconfigured custom designed Unix systems.
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Mike Ashton is listed as Commercially Oriented Servant Engineering Leadership.
Mike Ashton is based in Hackney, England, United Kingdom.
Mike Ashton has worked for Velo Payments, Kcg Holdings, Inc., Moo.Com, Bbc, and Cable And Wireless.
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Mike Ashton holds Computer Science from University Of Warwick.
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