{"id":92,"date":"2017-08-29T23:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com\/main\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2017-09-01T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T08:56:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/staff-windfarm-200x200.png\" alt=\"Staff Windfarm 200x200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-282\" \/> With a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, I have worked in many different companies in different roles over 20 years both in permanent and contracting roles. Experience includes <i>development<\/i> using many languages including C, Perl, C++, Java, BASH, and more, <i>system administration<\/i> of 200 Linux servers, <i>performance testing<\/i> of web sites and complex CORBA applications, overseeing the <i>architecture<\/i> of a nationwide data network, <i>porting<\/i> of existing code bases from one language to another, implementation of reported <i>bug fixes<\/i>, <i>automation<\/i> of manual tasks, establishment of <i>monitoring<\/i>, and many other assorted tasks.<\/p>\n<p>What I bring is a very broad experience base that allows end-to-end understanding of complex technical systems. If you have an issue it could be in any of the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>networking<\/i>, be it physical Ethernet, TCP configuration, or even a Java library that restricts the number of simultaneous connections you may have open<\/li>\n<li><i>operating system<\/i>, from heavy CPU load, to thread contention, or high disk I\/O<\/li>\n<li><i>application<\/i>, from a loop not terminating and consuming whole CPU cores, to an instance where someone wrote their own multithreading lock library in Java that resulted in deadlocks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen all of these things in the wild and I&#8217;ve often been the first to identify and find these issues.<\/p>\n<p>When your specialists have failed to figure out what is causing your technology related issues &#8211; that&#8217;s when you need an experienced generalist, and that is me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, I have worked in many different companies in different roles over 20 years both in permanent and contracting roles. Experience includes development using many languages including C, Perl, C++, Java, BASH, and more, system administration of 200 Linux servers, performance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itfault.com.au\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}